Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 46
If the earth is ever again to see any verdure, it must first grow along the path which my daughter will tread in coming back to me."
Who acts: earth, daughter · What happens: be, grow, tread, come back · To what, where: path, me
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 (earth, daughter), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | cop |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 again | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grow | advcl |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 verdure | det |
| 10 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | aux |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 grow | advmod |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 path | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grow | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tread | obj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tread | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tread | aux |
| 23 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 path | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 coming | mark |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 tread | advcl |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 coming | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 coming | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the earth | again | see property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | must | earth | the path | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Location | |||
| 3 | tread | future | my daughter | the path | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back | gerund | my daughter not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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