Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 40
The rich man's broad acres and the cottager's small garden patch were equally blighted.
What happens: blight · To what, where: broad acres
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: 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 acres | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 acres | amod |
| 6 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blighted | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 patch | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cottager | det |
| 9 | cottager | cottager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patch | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 cottager | case |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 patch | amod |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 patch | compound |
| 13 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 acres | conj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 blighted | aux:pass |
| 15 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 16 blighted | advmod |
| 16 | blighted | blight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 blighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blight | past · passive | the rich man's broad acres and the cottager's small garden patch | equally property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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