Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 6
So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss.
Who acts: hereabouts, Phoenix · What happens: happen, pass, sit down · To what, where: pleasant tract, Phoenix, heap
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 (hereabouts, Phoenix), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 happened | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 passing | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 passing | aux |
| 10 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 happened | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 tract | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tract | det |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tract | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 solitary | cc |
| 15 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pleasant | conj |
| 16 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tract | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 sat | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 heap | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 heap | det |
| 26 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 moss | case |
| 28 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heap | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | hereabouts = hereabout | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | hereabouts = hereabout not said here | a pleasant tract of country | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through tract=Location | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | Phoenix | Phoenix | a heap of moss | tree rules |
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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