Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 44
How sharp, and bright, and terrible it is!
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 sharp | advmod |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bright | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bright | cc |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sharp | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 terrible | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 terrible | cc |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sharp | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 terrible | cop |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | terrible 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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