Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 89
Thus the vessel returned, like a raven, with the same sable wings that had wafted her away.
Who acts: vessel, same sable wings · What happens: return, waft away · To what, where: Ariadne
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 (vessel, same sable wings), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vessel | det |
| 3 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 raven | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 raven | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 raven | det |
| 8 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wings | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wings | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 13 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wafted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wafted | aux |
| 17 | wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wings | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wafted | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 wafted | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the vessel | like a raven; with the same sable wings; thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | waft away | past · perfect | the same sable wings | Ariadne | away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme |
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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