Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 28
In short, the swollen river had already done a great deal of mischief.
Who acts: swollen river · What happens: do, deal · To what, where: great deal, mischief
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 (swollen river), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 done | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 done | advmod |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 deal | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deal | amod |
| 12 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mischief | case |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deal | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the swollen river | a great deal of mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | deal | mischief | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/28/