Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 36

The earth around it is certainly a little cracked!"

What happens: be · To what, where: earth

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: 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 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cracked	nsubj:pass
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 earth	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cracked	cop
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	9 cracked	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cracked	obl:unmarked
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 cracked	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cracked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive		the earth around difficult				a little obl:unmarked; certainly, crack property	tree rules

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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