Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 61
After entering the pasture, the princess paused and looked around.
Who acts: princess · What happens: enter, pause, look around · To what, where: pasture
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 paused | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pasture | det |
| 4 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paused | nsubj |
| 8 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 paused | conj |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the princess not said here | the pasture | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pasture=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | the princess | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look around | past | the princess not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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