Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 29
The folds of its garments, moreover, instead of waving in the wind, fell heavily over its limbs, as if woven of some kind of metal.
Who acts: folds · What happens: wave, fall, weave · To what, where: limbs
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 (folds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 folds | det |
| 2 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 garments | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 garments | nmod:poss |
| 5 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 folds | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waving | punct |
| 7 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 11 waving | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waving | punct |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 waving | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 folds | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 folds | punct |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 limbs | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 woven | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 woven | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 woven | mark |
| 24 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fell | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kind | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 kind | det |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 woven | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 metal | case |
| 29 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kind | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the folds of figure's garments not said here | in the wind; moreover property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the folds of figure's garments | figure's limbs | heavily property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over limb=Location | |||
| 3 | weave a condition, not said to happen | participle | of some kind of metal | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of kind=Trajectory |
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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