Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 66
We gloomy and cloudy-natured persons have often as warm hearts, at bottom, as those of a more cheerful character.
Who acts: gloomy natured persons · What happens: have · To what, where: warm hearts
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 (gloomy natured persons), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gloomy | nsubj |
| 2 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 persons | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cloudy | cc |
| 4 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gloomy | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloudy | punct |
| 6 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 persons | amod |
| 7 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 hearts | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 hearts | case |
| 11 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hearts | amod |
| 12 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bottom | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearts | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 have | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 character | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 character | det |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 cheerful | advmod |
| 22 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 character | amod |
| 23 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 those | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | gloomy natured persons | warm hearts and bottom | as those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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