Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 41
Every little girl's flower bed showed nothing but dry stalks.
Who acts: flower bed · What happens: show · 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 (flower bed), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | compound |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | nsubj |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 showed | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stalks | cc |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stalks | amod |
| 11 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | every little girl's flower bed | nothing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/41/