Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 30
Judging by your dress, you must have traveled a long distance, for it is not the fashion to wear leopard skins in this part of the world.
Who acts: you, distance · What happens: judge, travel, not be, wear · To what, where: long distance, leopard skins, part
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, distance), 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 | Judging | judge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 traveled | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 dress | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dress | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Judging | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Judging | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 traveled | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 traveled | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 traveled | aux |
| 9 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distance | amod |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 traveled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fashion | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fashion | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fashion | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fashion | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fashion | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fashion | det |
| 19 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 traveled | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wear | mark |
| 21 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fashion | acl |
| 22 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 skins | compound |
| 23 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wear | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 part | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 part | det |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wear | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | gerund | you not said here | by your dress | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | must · perfect | you | a long distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | distance | for the fashion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | to-infinitive | you not said here | leopard skins | this part of the world | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source |
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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