Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 84
A carver in the neighborhood engaged to make the figurehead.
Who acts: carver · What happens: engage, make · To what, where: figurehead
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 (carver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carver | det |
| 2 | carver | carver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 engaged | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 neighborhood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighborhood | det |
| 5 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carver | nmod |
| 6 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 engaged | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 figurehead | det |
| 10 | figurehead | figurehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | a carver in the neighborhood | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a carver in the neighborhood not said here | the figurehead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figurehead=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/84/