Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 89
The right arm was extended, as if pointing onward.
Who acts: right arm · What happens: be, point
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 (right arm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arm | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 arm | amod |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 extended | cop |
| 5 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointing | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 pointing | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 pointing | mark |
| 9 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 extended | conj |
| 10 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 9 pointing | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the right arm | extended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point a condition, not said to happen | gerund | the right arm not said here | onward property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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