Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 18
She burst forth from her hiding-place, and running to the hearth, raked open the fire, and snatched up poor little Prince Demophoon out of his bed of live coals, one of which he was gripping in each of his fists.
Who acts: child, one · What happens: burst, run, rake, open, snatch up, grip · To what, where: hiding place, fire, poor little Demophoon, bed, each
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 (child, one), 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 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 burst | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hiding | punct |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 running | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 running | cc |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 burst | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hearth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hearth | det |
| 14 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 running | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raked | punct |
| 16 | raked | rake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 raked | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 snatched | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 snatched | cc |
| 22 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 snatched | compound:prt |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Demophoon | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Demophoon | amod |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Demophoon | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Demophoon | Demophoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 snatched | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 bed | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 bed | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bed | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 snatched | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 coals | case |
| 33 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 coals | amod |
| 34 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 bed | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gripping | punct |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 gripping | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 gripping | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gripping | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 gripping | aux |
| 41 | gripping | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 snatched | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 each | case |
| 43 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 gripping | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 fists | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 fists | nmod:poss |
| 46 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 each | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | child | child's hiding place | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | child not said here | to the hearth result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hearth=Result | ||||
| 3 | rake | past | child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | child not said here | the fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | snatch up | past | child not said here | poor little Demophoon Prince | Demophoon's bed of live coals | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent demophoon=Theme out bed=Source | |||
| 6 | grip | past · progressive | one | each | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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