Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 37
He is a gay, light, frivolous young fellow, and will only smile in your face.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, smile · To what, where: gay light frivolous young fellow
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fellow | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fellow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 4 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gay | punct |
| 6 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 8 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smile | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smile | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 smile | aux |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 smile | advmod |
| 15 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fellow | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smile | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | man | a gay light frivolous young fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smile | future | man not said here | in your face | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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