Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 62
Its stately trunk rose up a hundred feet into the air, and threw a broad and dense shadow over more than an acre of ground.
Who acts: stately trunk · What happens: rise up, throw · To what, where: hundred feet, air, broad shadow, acre
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 (stately trunk), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trunk | amod |
| 3 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rose | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feet | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shadow | det |
| 16 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shadow | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dense | cc |
| 18 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 broad | conj |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 acre | case |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 24 acre | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 more | fixed |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 acre | det |
| 24 | acre | acre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 acre | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | center's stately trunk | a hundred feet | the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | throw | past | center's stately trunk not said here | a broad shadow | a acre of ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over acre=Destination |
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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