Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 19
He immediately set up a grievous cry, as babies are apt to do, when rudely startled out of a sound sleep.
Who acts: babies · What happens: set up, be, do, startle · To what, where: Demophoon, sound sleep
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 (babies), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cry | det |
| 6 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cry | amod |
| 7 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 apt | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 apt | mark |
| 10 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 apt | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 apt | cop |
| 12 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 apt | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 startled | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 startled | advmod |
| 17 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 18 startled | advmod |
| 18 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sleep | det |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | compound |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 startled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | participle · passive | Demophoon | immediately property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cry=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | babies | apt property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | babies not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | startle | past | babies not said here | a sound sleep | rudely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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