Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 20
To the queen's astonishment and joy, she could perceive no token of the child's being injured by the hot fire in which he had lain.
Who acts: queen, hot fire, Demophoon · What happens: perceive, injure, lie, astonish · To what, where: token, child, hot fire
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 (queen, hot fire, Demophoon), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 queen | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perceive | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 joy | cc |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonishment | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 perceive | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 perceive | aux |
| 11 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 token | det |
| 13 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perceive | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 injured | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 child | case |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 injured | aux:pass |
| 19 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 token | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 22 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fire | amod |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 injured | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 lain | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lain | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lain | aux |
| 28 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fire | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 perceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | could | queen | no token | to the queen's astonishment and joy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent token=Theme to astonishment=be' | |||
| 2 | injure | gerund · passive | the hot fire | the child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · perfect | Demophoon | the hot fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 4 | astonish | the queen | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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