Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 90
At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the greensward; and, by the time that the moon was a quarter of her journey up the sky, the plowed field lay before him, a large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with the dragon's teeth.
Who acts: hero, moon · What happens: succeed, break up, be, plow, lay, sow · To what, where: rate, greensward, quarter, large tract
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 (hero, moon), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 rate | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 rate | det |
| 3 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rate | punct |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hero | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | nsubj |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 succeeded | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 perfectly | fixed |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 breaking | mark |
| 11 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 breaking | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 greensward | det |
| 14 | greensward | greensward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breaking | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lay | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 quarter | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quarter | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 quarter | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 quarter | det |
| 26 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 journey | nmod:poss |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quarter | nmod |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 sky | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sky | det |
| 32 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 journey | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 field | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 field | det |
| 35 | plowed | plow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 field | amod |
| 36 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quarter | conj |
| 37 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | parataxis |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lay | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 tract | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 tract | det |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 tract | amod |
| 43 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 earth | case |
| 45 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 earth | amod |
| 46 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tract | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 ready | punct |
| 48 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lay | advcl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 sown | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 sown | aux:pass |
| 51 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 ready | xcomp |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 teeth | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 dragon | det |
| 54 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 55 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 54 dragon | case |
| 56 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sown | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | our hero | any rate | perfectly property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | break up | gerund | our hero not said here | the greensward | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greensward=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the moon | a quarter and the plowed field | of moon's journey up the sky | tree rules | |||
| 4 | plow | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lay | present | a large tract of black earth | before hero; time | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sow | to-infinitive · passive | with the dragon's teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with tooth=Theme | |||||
| 7 | journey | moon | up the sky | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent up=obl |
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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