Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 98
These bright objects sprouted higher, and proved to be the steel heads of spears.
Who acts: bright objects · What happens: sprout, prove, be · To what, where: steel heads
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 (bright objects), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 objects | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 objects | amod |
| 3 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprouted | nsubj |
| 4 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sprouted | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 proved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 proved | cc |
| 8 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprouted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 heads | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 heads | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heads | det |
| 12 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heads | compound |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 proved | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spears | case |
| 15 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heads | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprout | past | this bright objects | high property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | prove | past | this bright objects not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | this bright objects not said here | the steel heads | of spears | tree rules |
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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