Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 2
This learned person was one of the people, or quadrupeds, called Centaurs.
Who acts: This, person, quadrupeds · What happens: learn, be, call · To what, where: one, Centaurs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, person, quadrupeds), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 learned | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quadrupeds | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 quadrupeds | cc |
| 11 | quadrupeds | quadruped | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 quadrupeds | acl |
| 14 | Centaurs | centaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | This | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | person | one | of the people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | quadrupeds not said here | Centaurs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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