Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 69
"The roads are very bad by land," quoth the venerable king; "and they are terribly infested with robbers and monsters.
Who acts: roads · What happens: be, quoth, infest · To what, where: venerable king, roads
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 (roads), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roads | det |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 bad | advmod |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bad | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quoth | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 quoth | punct |
| 11 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bad | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 13 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quoth | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 infested | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 infested | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 infested | aux:pass |
| 20 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 21 infested | advmod |
| 21 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bad | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 robbers | case |
| 23 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 infested | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 monsters | cc |
| 25 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 robbers | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the roads | by land; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | the roads not said here | the venerable king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | infest in a quote | present · passive | roads = road | with robbers and monsters; terribly property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with robber=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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