Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 44
Phoebus (for this was the very person whom they were seeking) had a lyre in his hands, and was making its chords tremble with sweet music; at the same time singing a most exquisite song, which he had recently composed.
Who acts: this, eyes, Phoebus, chords, same time · What happens: be, seek, have, make, tremble, sing · To what, where: person, lyre, hands, exquisite song
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 (this, eyes, Phoebus, chords), 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 | Phoebus | phoebus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 person | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 person | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 person | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 person | advmod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Phoebus | appos |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 seeking | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seeking | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seeking | aux |
| 12 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 person | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 person | punct |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lyre | det |
| 16 | lyre | lyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lyre | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 making | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 making | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 making | aux |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 had | advcl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chords | nmod:poss |
| 25 | chords | chord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tremble | nsubj |
| 26 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 making | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 music | case |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 music | amod |
| 29 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tremble | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 time | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 35 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 time | acl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 song | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 exquisite | advmod |
| 38 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 song | amod |
| 39 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 singing | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 composed | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 composed | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 composed | aux |
| 44 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 45 composed | advmod |
| 45 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 song | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | for the person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | past · progressive | eyes = eye | the person | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Phoebus | a lyre | Phoebus's hands | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lyre=Patient | ||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | Phoebus not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | tremble | present | hand's chords | with sweet music | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | the same time not said here | a exquisite song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 7 | compose | past · perfect · passive | a exquisite song | recently property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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