Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 107

By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you would much sooner have taken them for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes, and a young nobleman, who had once a palace for a home, and a train of servants to do their bidding.

Who acts: people, you, young nobleman · What happens: come, have, take, do, bid · To what, where: young nobleman, wild aspect, people, palace, bidding

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 (people, you, young nobleman), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 aspect	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 aspect	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 homeless	cc
12	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wild	conj
13	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 taken	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 taken	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 sooner	advmod
20	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 taken	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 come	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taken	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 family	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 family	det
26	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 family	amod
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 queen	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 queen	det
30	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 family	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 princes	cc
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 princes	nummod
33	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 queen	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 nobleman	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 nobleman	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 nobleman	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nobleman	amod
38	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 nobleman	acl:relcl
42	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	44 palace	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 palace	det
44	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 home	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 home	det
47	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 palace	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 train	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 train	cc
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 train	det
51	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 nobleman	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 servants	case
53	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 train	nmod
54	to	to	PART	_	55 do	mark
55	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 train	acl
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 bidding	nmod:poss
57	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 do	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	people	a young nobleman and a train of servants		tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	people not said here	a wild aspect		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient
3	take	would · perfect	you	people	for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes; soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for family=Beneficiary
4	have	past	a young nobleman and a train of servants	a palace	for a home	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	people not said here	people's bidding		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	bid		people			nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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