Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 19
That sight, to be sure, made them all very grave again.
Who acts: sight · What happens: be, make · To what, where: dances
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 grave | advmod |
| 12 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | that sight | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | that sight not said here | dances = dance | again | grave property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary all=Product |
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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