Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 26
By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks.
What happens: uproot, come, drift, entangle · To what, where: current
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 branches | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 branches | case |
| 10 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 branches | amod |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tree | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | drifting | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 came | xcomp |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 current | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 current | det |
| 17 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drifting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entangled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entangled | cc |
| 20 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 entangled | aux:pass |
| 21 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 rocks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rocks | det |
| 24 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 entangled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uproot | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | by a uprooted tree and shattered branches | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drift | gerund | the current | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along current=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | entangle | past · passive | among the rocks | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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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