Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 61
It was another favorite feat with them to march along the bridge of his nose, and jump down upon his upper lip.
Who acts: party · What happens: be, march, jump down · To what, where: favorite feat, bridge, upper lip
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feat | cop |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 feat | det |
| 4 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feat | amod |
| 5 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feat | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 march | mark |
| 9 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feat | acl |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 march | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nose | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridge | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 jump | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jump | cc |
| 18 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 feat | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 jump | advmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 lip | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lip | nmod:poss |
| 22 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lip | amod |
| 23 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jump | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | party | another favorite feat | with tricks = trick | tree rules | |||
| 2 | march | to-infinitive | the bridge of Earth's nose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bridge=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | jump down | infinitive | party not said here | Earth's upper lip | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon lip=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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