Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 85
In due season, they came within sight of the coast of Attica, which was their native country.
Who acts: youths, Attica · What happens: come, be, sight · To what, where: native country, coast
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths, Attica), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 season | case |
| 2 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 season | amod |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 season | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Attica | case |
| 13 | Attica | Attica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 country | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 country | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 country | cop |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Attica | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | youths = youth | season | within sight of the coast of Attica | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Attica | youths's native country | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sight | the coast of Attica | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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