Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 30
Meanwhile the rock seemed to be sinking farther and farther into the ground.
Who acts: rock · What happens: seem, sink · To what, where: ground
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 (rock), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sinking | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sinking | aux |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sinking | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 farther | cc |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 farther | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the rock | meanwhile property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sink | to-infinitive · progressive | the rock not said here | the ground | far property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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