Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 65
It makes a holiday in Colchis whenever such a thing happens.
Who acts: stranger, thing · What happens: make, happen · To what, where: holiday, Colchis
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 (stranger, thing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 holiday | det |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Colchis | case |
| 6 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| 7 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 happens | advmod |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 thing | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happens | nsubj |
| 11 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | stranger | a holiday | Colchis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material holiday=Product | |||
| 2 | happen | present | such thing | whenever property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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