Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 72
And, indeed, if you had seen how hateful was her last look, as the flaming chariot flew upward, you would not have wondered that both king and people should think her departure a good riddance.
Who acts: you, hateful, flaming chariot, king · What happens: see, be, fly, not wonder, think, depart · To what, where: last look, departure
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: who acts (you, hateful, flaming chariot, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seen | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 look | advmod |
| 10 | hateful | hateful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 look | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | cop |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 look | nmod:poss |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | amod |
| 14 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flew | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 flew | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chariot | det |
| 18 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chariot | compound |
| 19 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | parataxis |
| 21 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wondered | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 wondered | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wondered | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wondered | advmod |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wondered | aux |
| 27 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 flew | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 think | mark |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 think | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 people | cc |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 king | conj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 think | aux |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wondered | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 departure | nmod:poss |
| 36 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 think | obj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 riddance | det |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 riddance | amod |
| 39 | riddance | riddance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 think | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | you | indeed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | hateful | hateful's last look | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the flaming chariot | upward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not wonder speech: ask | would · perfect | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | should | both king and people | hateful's departure | a good riddance obl:unmarked | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot departure=Theme | |||
| 6 | depart | hateful | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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