Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 58
The immense palace had a thousand rooms, and was full of beautiful and wonderful objects.
Who acts: immense palace · What happens: have, be · To what, where: thousand rooms
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 (immense palace), 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 palace | det |
| 2 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rooms | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rooms | nummod |
| 7 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 full | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 objects | case |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 objects | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wonderful | cc |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beautiful | conj |
| 16 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the immense palace | a thousand rooms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the immense palace not said here | of beautiful objects; full property | tree rules |
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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