Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 73
You are too fond of living in the broad daylight, and gathering flowers.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, live, gather · To what, where: broad daylight, flowers
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 fond | advmod |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 living | mark |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fond | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 daylight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daylight | det |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daylight | amod |
| 10 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathering | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gathering | cc |
| 13 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fond | advcl |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathering | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | You not said here | the broad daylight | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location | ||||
| 3 | gather | gerund | You not said here | flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
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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