Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 61
This wonderful tree stood in the center of an ancient wood.
Who acts: wonderful tree · What happens: stand · To what, where: center
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 (wonderful tree), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 center | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 center | det |
| 7 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wood | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 center | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this wonderful tree | the center of a ancient wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in center=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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