Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 34
But now, having nothing else to busy herself about, she became just as wretched as before.
Who acts: queen · What happens: have, become · To what, where: nothing
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 having | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 having | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 having | obj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 busy | mark |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nothing | amod |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 busy | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 busy | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | parataxis |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 wretched | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 wretched | advmod |
| 16 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 wretched | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | nothing | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | queen | wretched property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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