Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 42
She had been idly watching the flame for some moments past, when, all at once, it flickered and went out.
Who acts: mother, flame · What happens: watch, flicker, go out · To what, where: flame
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 (mother, flame), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 watching | aux |
| 4 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 5 watching | advmod |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flame | det |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moments | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 moments | det |
| 10 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watching | obl |
| 11 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 watching | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 when | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 watching | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flickered | punct |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 flickered | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 all | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flickered | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flickered | nsubj |
| 20 | flickered | flicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watching | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flickered | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | mother | the flame | moment | idly, past property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | ||
| 2 | flicker | past | flame | all property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | flame not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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