Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 65
As for the peacock, it alighted on the old dame's shoulder.
What happens: alight · To what, where: shore, shoulder
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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 peacock | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peacock | det |
| 4 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alighted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peacock | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 alighted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shoulder | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dame | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dame | amod |
| 11 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 dame | case |
| 13 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alighted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 alighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle · passive | shore | the old dame's shoulder | as the peacock | 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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