Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 82
"There are other difficulties in the way," continued the young princes. "
What happens: be, continue · To what, where: way, young princes
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 difficulties | amod |
| 5 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princes | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 princes | amod |
| 14 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 continued | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | the young princes | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
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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