Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 34
It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the path grew verdant behind and on either side of her.
Who acts: gateway, path · What happens: be, hasten, grow
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gateway, path), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delightful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delightful | cop |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 behold | case |
| 5 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 3 delightful | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hastened | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 hastened | mark |
| 8 | Proserpina | Proserpina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hastened | compound |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 delightful | parataxis |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 hastened | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 grew | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hastened | conj |
| 16 | verdant | verdant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 grew | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 side | cc |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 side | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gateway | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | along property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the path | behind, verdant property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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