Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 67
How they contrived to keep themselves alive is more than I can imagine.
Who acts: streets, I · What happens: contrive, keep, be, imagine · To what, where: streets
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 (streets, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 contrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 contrived | nsubj |
| 3 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 contrived | xcomp |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagine | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 imagine | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagine | aux |
| 13 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 more | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrive | past | streets = street | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | streets = street not said here | streets = street | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | imagine | can | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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