Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 99

They thought it strange to behold a woman in the garb of a queen (for Telephassa in her haste had forgotten to take off her crown and her royal robes), roaming about the country, with four lads around her, on such an errand as this seemed to be.

Who acts: people, Telephassa, this · What happens: think, behold, forget, not take off, roam, seem · To what, where: woman, garb, queen, crown, errand

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, Telephassa, this), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strange	nsubj
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 behold	mark
6	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strange	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behold	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garb	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garb	det
11	garb	garb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 behold	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 queen	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 garb	nmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 Telephassa	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 Telephassa	case
17	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 forgotten	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 haste	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 haste	nmod:poss
20	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Telephassa	nmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 forgotten	aux
22	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 queen	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 forgotten	xcomp
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 take	compound:prt
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 crown	nmod:poss
27	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 robes	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 robes	nmod:poss
30	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 robes	amod
31	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 take	conj
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 roaming	punct
34	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 country	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 roaming	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lads	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 lads	case
40	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 lads	nummod
41	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 roaming	obl
42	around	around	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lads	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 errand	punct
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 errand	case
46	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	48 errand	det:predet
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 errand	det
48	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 roaming	obl
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 seemed	mark
50	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 seemed	nsubj
51	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 errand	acl:relcl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 be	mark
53	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 seemed	xcomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	behold	to-infinitive	people not said here	a woman	the garb of a queen		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	forget	past · perfect	Telephassa in Telephassa's haste	a queen not said here			tree rules
4	not take off	to-infinitive	Telephassa in Telephassa's haste not said here	Telephassa's crown			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
5	roam	gerund	people not said here		such errand	about the country; with four lads around Telephassa	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory
6	seem	past	this	such errand not said here			tree rules
7	be	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	crown		Telephassa				nom crown «communication 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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