Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 72

So here, in the course of a few years, was another thriving city, with a red freestone palace in the center of it, where Thasus sat upon a throne, doing justice to the people, with a purple robe over his shoulders, a sceptre in his hand, and a crown upon his head.

Who acts: Thasus · What happens: thrive, be, sit, do · To what, where: thriving city, throne, justice

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 (Thasus), 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	_	2 here	advmod
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 city	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 course	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 course	det
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 course	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 city	cop
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 city	det
14	thriving	thrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 city	amod
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 palace	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 palace	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 palace	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 palace	amod
20	freestone	freestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palace	compound
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 city	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 center	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 center	det
24	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palace	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 center	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 sat	advmod
29	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 palace	conj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 throne	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 throne	det
33	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 doing	punct
35	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sat	advcl
36	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doing	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 people	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 people	det
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 doing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 robe	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 robe	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 robe	det
43	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 robe	amod
44	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doing	obl
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 shoulders	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shoulders	nmod:poss
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 robe	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sceptre	punct
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 sceptre	det
50	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 robe	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 hand	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hand	nmod:poss
53	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sceptre	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 crown	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 crown	cc
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 crown	det
57	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 city	conj
58	upon	upon	ADP	_	60 head	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 head	nmod:poss
60	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 crown	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 city	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrive	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		another thriving city and a crown upon city's head	here	with a red freestone palace in the center of center	tree rules
3	sit	past	Thasus		a throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location
4	do	gerund	Thasus not said here	justice		to the people; with a purple robe over city's shoulders and a sceptre in city's hand	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality

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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