Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 75
Are not these gems, which I have ordered to be dug for you, and which are richer than any in my crown--are they not prettier than a violet?"
Who acts: I, gems, my · What happens: not be, order, dig, be, crown · To what, where: gems
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 (I, gems, my), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gems | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gems | advmod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 gems | det |
| 4 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prettier | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ordered | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ordered | aux |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gems | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dug | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dug | aux:pass |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 dug | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 richer | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 richer | cc |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 richer | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 richer | cop |
| 19 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 dug | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 any | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 richer | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 crown | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 crown | nmod:poss |
| 24 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 any | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 gems | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 prettier | cop |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 prettier | nsubj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 prettier | advmod |
| 29 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 violet | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 violet | det |
| 32 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 prettier | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 prettier | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 prettier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this gems | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | order | present · perfect | I | this gems | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dig not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | this gems not said here | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: for you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | than any; rich property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | this gems | than a violet; pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | crown | my | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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