Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 36
The violets gushed up along the wayside.
What happens: gush up · To what, where: violets, wayside
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 violets | det |
| 2 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 violets | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gushed | compound:prt |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 wayside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wayside | det |
| 7 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gushed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 violets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gush up | participle | the violets not said here | the wayside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wayside=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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