Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 24
That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had tasted on this beautiful earth.
Who acts: fierce fight · What happens: be, taste · To what, where: only enjoyment, beautiful earth
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 (fierce fight), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fight | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fight | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 feverish | cc |
| 4 | feverish | feverish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fierce | conj |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoyment | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoyment | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 enjoyment | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enjoyment | amod |
| 9 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tasted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tasted | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tasted | aux |
| 13 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 enjoyment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 earth | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 earth | amod |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tasted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoyment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that fierce fight | the only enjoyment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste | past · perfect · passive | the only enjoyment | this beautiful earth | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on earth=Location |
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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