Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 33
Ever since my infancy, I have dwelt in the cave of Chiron the Centaur.
Who acts: I · What happens: dwell · To what, where: infancy, cave
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 (I), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 infancy | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 infancy | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 infancy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwelt | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dwelt | aux |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 infancy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Chiron | case |
| 13 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Centaur | det |
| 15 | Centaur | Centaur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Chiron | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 infancy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present · perfect | I | my infancy not said here | the cave of Chiron | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme infancy=Location |
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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