Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 35
Wherever she set her blessed foot, there was at once a dewy flower.
Who acts: path · What happens: set, be · To what, where: blessed foot, dewy flower
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 (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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 was | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foot | amod |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 flower | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 13 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flower | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | path | path's blessed foot | wherever property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result | |||
| 2 | be | past | a dewy flower; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at flower=Location |
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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