Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 39
But I can assure you it was a busy time of year with the farmers, when they found the summer coming upon them with such a rush.
Who acts: I, cattle, farmers, summer · What happens: assure, be, find, come · To what, where: you, busy time
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 (I, cattle, farmers, summer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 assure | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 assure | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 assure | aux |
| 4 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 assure | iobj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 time | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assure | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 farmers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farmers | det |
| 15 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 time | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 found | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 summer | det |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 summer | acl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 rush | case |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 rush | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rush | det |
| 28 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | can | I | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | cattle | a busy time | year | with the farmers | tree rules | ||
| 3 | find | past | farmers = farmer | summer | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the summer not said here | upon farmers = farmer; with such rush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=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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