Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 52

He then began a race to that part of the flowery plain where her three brothers were, and where they had just caught their splendid butterfly.

Who acts: bull · What happens: begin, be, catch · To what, where: race, brothers

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 (bull), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 race	det
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 part	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plain	det
11	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plain	amod
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 were	advmod
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 brothers	nummod
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plain	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 caught	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caught	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 caught	advmod
24	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 butterfly	nmod:poss
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 butterfly	amod
27	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	bull	a race	then	to that part	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
2	is	past				of the flowery plain	tree rules
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary butterfly=Theme

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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