Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 108
She clapped her hands for joy, and beckoning him to make haste, disappeared among the duskiness of the trees.
Who acts: angel · What happens: clap, beckon, make, disappear · To what, where: hands, Jason, haste
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clapped | nsubj |
| 2 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clapped | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clapped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beckoning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beckoning | cc |
| 9 | beckoning | beckon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 clapped | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beckoning | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beckoning | advcl |
| 13 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disappeared | punct |
| 15 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clapped | conj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 duskiness | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 duskiness | det |
| 18 | duskiness | duskiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappeared | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 duskiness | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | angel | angel's hands | for joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | beckon | gerund | angel not said here | Jason | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | angel not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past | angel not said here | among the duskiness of the trees | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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