Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 57
The instant I tasted it, King Pluto and Quicksilver came into the room.
Who acts: I, instant · What happens: taste, come · To what, where: instant, room
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, instant), 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 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tasted | nsubj |
| 4 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 instant | acl:relcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tasted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 instant | punct |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 8 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Quicksilver | cc |
| 10 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 King | conj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | past | I | instant | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the instant | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_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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