Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 31
One of the children, whose name was Helle, fell into the sea and was drowned.
Who acts: name, One, Helle · What happens: be, fall, drown, name · To what, where: Helle, sea
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, One, Helle), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Helle | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Helle | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Helle | cop |
| 9 | Helle | Helle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drowned | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drowned | aux:pass |
| 17 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fell | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Helle's name | Helle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | One of the children | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | drown | past · passive | One of the children not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | name | Helle | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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