Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 39
The pastures looked as brown in the sweet month of June as ever they did in chill November.
Who acts: pastures · What happens: look, do · To what, where: chill
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 (pastures), 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 | 2 pastures | det |
| 2 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 brown | case |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 month | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 month | det |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 month | amod |
| 9 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 June | case |
| 11 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 month | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 did | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chill | case |
| 17 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obl |
| 18 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chill | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the pastures | month | as brown | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past | pastures = pasture | chill | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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