Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 4

Seated on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance of buds and blossoms, whence her rosy face peeped merrily out, and, as Cadmus said, was the prettiest of all the flowers.

Who acts: grass, rosy face, Cadmus · What happens: seat, hide, peep, say, be · To what, where: grass, child, abundance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grass, rosy face, Cadmus), 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	Seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seated	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hidden	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hidden	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hidden	aux:pass
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 hidden	advmod
10	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grass	acl:relcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 abundance	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 abundance	det
13	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hidden	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 buds	case
15	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 abundance	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blossoms	cc
17	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 buds	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 peeped	punct
19	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	23 peeped	advmod
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
21	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 face	amod
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peeped	nsubj
23	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 abundance	acl:relcl
24	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	25 out	advmod
25	out	out	ADV	_	23 peeped	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
30	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Seated	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 prettiest	punct
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 prettiest	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prettiest	det
35	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 said	ccomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 flowers	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 flowers	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flowers	det
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 prettiest	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	participle			the grass		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	hide	past · passive	the grass not said here	the child	a abundance of buds and blossoms	almost property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under abundance=Location
3	peep	past	child's rosy face			out, whence property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Cadmus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past				of all flowers; pretty property	tree rules

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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