Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 98

The rustic people, of whom they asked this question, paused a little while from their labors in the field, and looked very much surprised.

Who acts: people, rustic people · What happens: ask, pause, look · To what, where: question, labors

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, rustic people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paused	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 whom	case
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 people	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 whom	acl:relcl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 question	det
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 people	punct
12	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 while	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 while	amod
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paused	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 labors	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 labors	nmod:poss
18	labors	labor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paused	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 field	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 labors	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 paused	conj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 surprised	advmod
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looked	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	people	this question				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	pause	past	the rustic people		people's labors in the field	while		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the rustic people not said here				surprised property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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