Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 42

And what merry times they might have, either taking turns for a gallop, or clambering on the gentle creature, all four children together, and careering round the field with shouts of laughter that would be heard as far off as King Agenor's palace!

Who acts: brothers · What happens: have, take, clamber, career, shout, hear · To what, where: turns, gentle creature, laughter

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 (brothers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 have	obj
3	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 times	amod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obl:unmarked
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
9	either	either	CCONJ	_	10 taking	cc:preconj
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 have	advcl
11	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taking	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 gallop	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gallop	det
14	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clambering	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 clambering	cc
17	clambering	clamber	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 taking	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 creature	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 creature	det
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 creature	amod
21	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clambering	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 children	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 children	det
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 children	nummod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 creature	conj
26	together	together	ADV	_	17 clambering	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 careering	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 careering	cc
29	careering	career	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 taking	conj
30	round	round	ADP	_	32 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 field	det
32	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 careering	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 shouts	case
34	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 careering	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 laughter	case
36	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shouts	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 heard	nsubj:pass
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 heard	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 heard	aux:pass
40	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 laughter	acl:relcl
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 far	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 off	advmod
43	off	off	ADV	_	40 heard	advmod
44	as	as	ADP	_	48 palace	case
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 palace	nmod:poss
46	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 King	flat
47	's	's	PART	_	45 King	case
48	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 heard	obl
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	might	brothers = brother			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	take	gerund	brothers = brother not said here	turns			for a gallop	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent turn=Theme for gallop=Beneficiary
3	clamber	gerund	brothers = brother not said here		the gentle creature and all four children		together property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on creature=Trajectory
4	career	gerund	brothers = brother not said here				round the field	tree rules
5	shout speech: express	present					of laughter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear	would · passive		laughter			as King's palace; off property	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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