Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 42
By and by, after a pretty long journey, they arrived at the sunniest spot in the whole world.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: arrive · To what, where: sunniest spot
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 (eyes), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 journey | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 journey | amod |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 journey | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 spot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spot | det |
| 15 | sunniest | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 spot | amod |
| 16 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spot | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | eyes = eye | the sunniest spot in the whole world | by a long journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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