Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 103

They all looked very much travel-stained, and would have had the dust of many countries on their shoes, if the streams, through which they waded, had not washed it all away.

Who acts: garments · What happens: look, stain, have, wade, not wash away · To what, where: much, dust

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (garments), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	obj
6	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stained	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 travel	punct
8	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 much	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 looked	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dust	det
15	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 countries	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 countries	amod
18	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dust	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 shoes	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoes	nmod:poss
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 countries	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 streams	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 streams	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 streams	det
25	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 waded	punct
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 waded	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 waded	nsubj
30	waded	wade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 washed	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 washed	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 washed	advmod
34	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 waded	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 washed	obj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 it	det
37	away	away	ADV	_	34 washed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	garments = garment	much		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute
2	stain	participle	garments = garment not said here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	have	would · perfect		the dust of many countries on garments's shoes	the streams obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
4	wade	past	garments = garment			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory
5	not wash away	past · perfect	garments = garment not said here	dust	away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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