Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 38
The starved cattle immediately set to work grazing, after their long fast, and ate enormously, all day, and got up at midnight to eat more.
What happens: starve, work, graze, eat, get up · To what, where: more
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 | 3 cattle | det |
| 2 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cattle | amod |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | advcl |
| 8 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 work | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 long | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 long | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 long | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 17 | enormously | enormously | ADV | _ | 16 ate | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ate | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 got | cc |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 got | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 midnight | case |
| 26 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 got | advcl |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 eat | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | graze | gerund | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | eat | past | day | enormously property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | midnight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | more | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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