Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 47
It is now time to make one earnest trial to remove the stone."
Who acts: moss · What happens: be, make, remove · To what, where: time, one earnest trial, stone
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 (moss), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 trial | nummod |
| 8 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 trial | amod |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 remove | mark |
| 11 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remove | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | moss | time | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | one earnest trial | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product | |||||
| 3 | remove | to-infinitive | the stone | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
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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