Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 24
She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatient to begin his adventures in the world.
Who acts: mother, wonder · What happens: not help, be, find, begin, adventure · To what, where: wonder, adventures, world
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wonder), 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 | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sorrowful | cop |
| 6 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 finding | mark |
| 8 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sorrowful | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finding | obj |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 impatient | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 impatient | advmod |
| 12 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 finding | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 begin | mark |
| 14 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impatient | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 begin | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begin | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | mother | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | gerund | mother not said here | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | mother not said here | wonder | impatient property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 4 | begin | to-infinitive | mother not said here | wonder's adventures | the world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | adventure | wonder | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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