Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 14
The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been.
Who acts: firelight, next thing, backlog · What happens: do, be, make · To what, where: next thing, hollow place
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, next thing, backlog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rake | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rake | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rake | mark |
| 8 | rake | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 rake | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 embers | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 embers | amod |
| 12 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rake | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rake | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 been | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 been | advmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 been | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 backlog | det |
| 25 | backlog | backlog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 been | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 been | aux |
| 27 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 make | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | firelight | the next thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the next thing | rake property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the next thing not said here | a hollow place | among embers = ember | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product | |||
| 4 | be | past · perfect | the backlog | 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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