Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 13
She undressed the little prince, and bathed him all over with some fragrant liquid out of a vase.
Who acts: firelight · What happens: undress, bath · To what, where: little prince, Prince, vase
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firelight), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 undressed | nsubj |
| 2 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 undressed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bathed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bathed | cc |
| 8 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 undressed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bathed | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 over | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 bathed | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 liquid | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 liquid | det |
| 14 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 liquid | amod |
| 15 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | obl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 vase | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 vase | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vase | det |
| 19 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 undressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undress | past | firelight | the little prince | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bath | past | firelight not said here | Prince | a vase | with some fragrant liquid; over property | tree rules |
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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