Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 74
Away it went, over mountains and valleys, and, for aught I know, was heard on the other side of the African deserts.
Who acts: tree, I · What happens: go, know, hear · To what, where: mountains, aught, other side
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, I), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountains | punct |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 mountains | case |
| 6 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 valleys | cc |
| 8 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mountains | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aught | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 aught | case |
| 13 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 18 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 aught | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aught | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 deserts | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 deserts | det |
| 25 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deserts | amod |
| 26 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 side | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | tree | mountains and valleys | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | aught | the other side of the African deserts | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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