Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 8
Their principal temple, or cathedral, was as lofty as yonder bureau, and was looked upon as a wonderfully sublime and magnificent edifice.
Who acts: principal temple · What happens: be, look
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 (principal temple), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 temple | nmod:poss |
| 2 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 temple | amod |
| 3 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lofty | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cathedral | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 cathedral | cc |
| 6 | cathedral | cathedral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 temple | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 temple | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lofty | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 lofty | advmod |
| 10 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 bureau | case |
| 12 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 13 bureau | advmod |
| 13 | bureau | bureau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lofty | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | aux:pass |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lofty | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 edifice | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 edifice | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 edifice | det |
| 21 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 22 sublime | advmod |
| 22 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 edifice | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 magnificent | cc |
| 24 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sublime | conj |
| 25 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lofty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pygmies's principal temple or cathedral | as bureau; lofty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past · passive | Pygmies's principal temple or cathedral not said here | upon a sublime edifice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: upon edifice=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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