Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 71

For it happened to him, as to Phoenix and Cilix, that other homeless people visited the spot, and liked it, and built themselves habitations in the neighborhood.

Who acts: it, other homeless people · What happens: happen, visit, like, build · To what, where: alacrity, spot, people

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 (it, other homeless 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 happened	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Phoenix	punct
7	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 Phoenix	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
9	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Cilix	cc
11	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Phoenix	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 visited	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 visited	mark
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
15	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 visited	nsubj
17	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spot	det
19	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 visited	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 liked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 liked	cc
22	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 visited	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 built	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 built	cc
26	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 liked	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 built	obj
28	habitations	habitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 built	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 neighborhood	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 neighborhood	det
31	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 habitations	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		alacrity	as Phoenix and Cilix	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	past	other homeless people	the spot			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Co-Agent
3	like	past	other homeless people not said here	spot			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	build	past	other homeless people not said here	people			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary habitation=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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