Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 104

It is owing to thy care, thou tenderest child, that my grave was not dug long years ago, in some valley, or on some hillside, that lies far, far behind us.

Who acts: disappointment, thou, that, thy · What happens: owe, child, not dig, lie, care · To what, where: care, grave, valley

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disappointment, thou, that, thy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 owing	aux
3	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 care	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 care	nmod:poss
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 child	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 child	nsubj
9	tenderest	tender	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dug	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 dug	mark
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grave	nmod:poss
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dug	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dug	aux:pass
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 dug	advmod
17	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 owing	advcl
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ago	obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 dug	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 valley	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 valley	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 valley	det
24	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dug	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hillside	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 hillside	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 hillside	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 hillside	det
29	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 valley	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lies	punct
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lies	nsubj
32	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hillside	advcl
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 far	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 far	punct
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 lies	advmod
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 us	case
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 lies	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 owing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	owe	present · progressive	disappointment			to thy care goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to care=Goal
2	child		thou				tree rules
3	not dig	past · passive		my grave	some valley or some hillside	ago property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in valley=Location
4	lie	present	that			behind us; far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind we=Location
5	care		thy				nom care «act intransitive»: 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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