Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 97
The truth was, however, that the oaken lips had moved, and, to all appearance, the voice had proceeded from the statue's mouth.
What happens: move, proceed · To what, where: truth, voice, mouth
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: 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 | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 moved | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lips | det |
| 9 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lips | amod |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 proceeded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 proceeded | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 appearance | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 appearance | det |
| 18 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proceeded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appearance | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proceeded | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 proceeded | aux |
| 23 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 moved | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 mouth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 statue | det |
| 26 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 statue | case |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proceeded | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · perfect · passive | the truth | however property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past · perfect · passive | the voice | the statue's mouth | to all appearance | tree rules |
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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