Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 98
Ascending a lofty flight of steps, she entered the portal, and found the royal household in very great alarm about the queen's baby.
Who acts: Ceres · What happens: ascend, enter, find · To what, where: lofty flight, portal, royal household, great alarm
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 (Ceres), 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 | Ascending | ascend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flight | det |
| 3 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flight | amod |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascending | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 steps | case |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flight | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascending | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 portal | det |
| 11 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 household | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 household | amod |
| 17 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 alarm | case |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 alarm | amod |
| 21 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 baby | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 baby | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 queen | case |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 alarm | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | gerund | Ceres not said here | a lofty flight of steps | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flight=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Ceres | the portal | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme portal=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Ceres not said here | the royal household | great alarm about the queen's baby | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/98/