Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 37
The old woman had a pomegranate in her hand, although the fruit was then quite out of season.
Who acts: old woman, fruit · What happens: have, be · To what, where: pomegranate, hand
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 (old woman, fruit), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pomegranate | det |
| 6 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 season | punct |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 season | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fruit | det |
| 13 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 season | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 season | cop |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 season | advmod |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 season | advmod |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 season | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 season | case |
| 19 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old woman | a pomegranate | schoolmaster's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the fruit | out season; then | tree rules |
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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