Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 79
Accordingly, though Phoebus sang a very sad song, he was as merry all the while as were the sunbeams amid which he dwelt.
Who acts: Phoebus, sunbeams amid · What happens: sing, be, dwell · To what, where: sad 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 (Phoebus, sunbeams amid), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 sang | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 sang | mark |
| 4 | Phoebus | phoebus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sad | advmod |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sang | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 merry | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 merry | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 merry | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 merry | advmod |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sang | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 while | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 merry | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 amid | case |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 amid | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 amid | det |
| 21 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 amid | compound |
| 22 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 merry | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 dwelt | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dwelt | nsubj |
| 25 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 amid | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Phoebus | a sad song | accordingly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Phoebus | while | merry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | as the sunbeams amid | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dwell | past | the sunbeams amid | vn exist-47.1 «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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