Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 92
The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace.
Who acts: gape, enormous jaws · What happens: be, gape
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 (gape, enormous jaws), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gape | det |
| 2 | gape | gape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jaws | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 5 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jaws | amod |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gape | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wide | cop |
| 8 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 10 wide | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 wide | advmod |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gateway | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gateway | det |
| 13 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wide | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gateway | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gape of Jason's enormous jaws | as the gateway of the king's palace; nearly, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gape | Jason's enormous jaws | nom gape «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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