Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 110

When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Telephassa (who had done no work in her palace, save to braid silk threads with golden ones) came behind them to bind the sheaves.

Who acts: farmhouses, hospitality, Telephassa, silk threads · What happens: seek, need, give, do, save, braid · To what, where: farmhouses, assistance, harvest field, work, palace, sheaves

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 (farmhouses, hospitality, Telephassa, silk threads), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hospitality	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husbandmen	det
3	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hospitality	nmod:poss
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 farmhouses	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 farmhouses	case
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 farmhouses	nmod:poss
7	farmhouses	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 husbandmen	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sought	nsubj
9	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 farmhouses	acl:relcl
10	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needed	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hospitality	punct
12	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 assistance	nmod:poss
14	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 field	det
17	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 field	compound
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 needed	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	obj
23	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	21 gave	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 save	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 save	cc
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Telephassa	nmod:desc
27	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 save	nsubj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 Telephassa	acl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 work	det
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 palace	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 palace	nmod:poss
36	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 save	punct
38	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needed	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 braid	mark
40	braid	braid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 save	xcomp
41	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 threads	compound
42	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 came	nsubj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 ones	case
44	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 ones	amod
45	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 threads	nmod
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	45 ones	punct
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 braid	ccomp
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 came	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 bind	mark
51	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 came	advcl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sheaves	det
53	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 bind	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 needed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	farmhouses = farmhouse	the husbandmen and the husbandmen and farmhouses's farmhouses's farmhouses not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Theme
2	need	past	the husbandmen and the husbandmen and farmhouses's farmhouses's hospitality	farmhouses's assistance	the harvest field		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot assistance=Theme
3	give	past	farmhouses = farmhouse	assistance		willingly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	Telephassa Queen	no work	Telephassa's palace		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	save	infinitive	Telephassa Queen				tree rules
6	braid	to-infinitive	Telephassa Queen not said here				tree rules
7	come	past	silk threads with golden ones			behind farmhouses = farmhouse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
8	bind	to-infinitive	silk threads with golden ones not said here	the sheaves			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Patient
9	assist		farmhouses = farmhouse				nom assistance «act 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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