Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 90
In various directions he kept poking his ugly snout among the trees, stretching out his neck a terrible long way, now here, now there, and now close to the spot where Jason and the princess were hiding behind an oak.
Who acts: antelope, Jason · What happens: keep, poke, stretch out, hide · To what, where: various directions, ugly snout, neck, oak
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 (antelope, Jason), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 directions | case |
| 2 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 directions | amod |
| 3 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | poking | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 snout | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snout | amod |
| 9 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poking | obj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stretching | punct |
| 14 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 poking | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 stretching | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretching | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretching | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 here | punct |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 here | advmod |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stretching | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 there | punct |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 there | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 here | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 close | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 close | cc |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 close | advmod |
| 31 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 spot | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spot | det |
| 34 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 close | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 hiding | advmod |
| 36 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 hiding | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 princess | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 princess | det |
| 39 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Jason | conj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 hiding | aux |
| 41 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 spot | acl:relcl |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 44 oak | case |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 oak | det |
| 44 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hiding | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | antelope | various directions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | poke | gerund | antelope not said here | antelope's ugly snout | among the trees | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent snout=Theme | |||
| 3 | stretch out | gerund | antelope not said here | antelope's neck | here | a terrible long way obl:unmarked | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||
| 4 | hide | past · progressive | Jason and the princess | a oak | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind oak=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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