Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 21

And by and by there came other people, who chanced to have no homes; and, seeing how pleasant a spot it was, they built themselves huts in the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation.

Who acts: other people, people · What happens: come, chance, have, see, build · To what, where: other people, homes, pleasant spot, people, neighborhood

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 (other people, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 there	case
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chanced	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 chanced	nsubj
11	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 chanced	xcomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 homes	det
15	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 built	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 built	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeing	punct
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 built	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 pleasant	advmod
21	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spot	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeing	obj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 was	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spot	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeing	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 built	nsubj
28	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 built	obj
30	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 built	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 neighborhood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 neighborhood	det
33	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 built	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 habitation	case
35	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 habitation	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Phoenix	case
37	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 neighborhood	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past		other people		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme
2	chance	past	other people			vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	other people not said here	no homes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
4	see	gerund	people not said here	a pleasant spot		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus
5	build	past	people	people	the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary hut=Product

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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