Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 7
She had grown up in a very wild way, and talked much about the rights of women, and loved hunting and war far better than her needle.
Who acts: grove · What happens: grow up, talk, love · To what, where: wild way, hunting
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 (grove), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:2029): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 wild | advmod |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talked | cc |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 rights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rights | det |
| 16 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 talked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 women | case |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rights | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 loved | cc |
| 21 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | conj |
| 22 | hunting | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loved | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 war | cc |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hunting | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 better | advmod |
| 26 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 loved | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 needle | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 needle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 better | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | grove | a wild way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | grove not said here | about the rights of women | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about right=Topic | ||||
| 3 | love | past | grove not said here | hunting and war | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunt=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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