Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 103

It was a fertile and lovely plain, with great trees flinging their sun-speckled shadows over it, and hills fencing it in from the rough weather.

Who acts: cud, great trees, hills, trees · What happens: be, fling, speckle, fence in, shadow · To what, where: speckled shadows, cud, rough weather

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cud, great trees, hills, trees), 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	7 plain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plain	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plain	det
4	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plain	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lovely	cc
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fertile	conj
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trees	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plain	obl
12	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 trees	acl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shadows	nmod:poss
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speckled	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sun	punct
16	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 shadows	amod
17	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flinging	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flinging	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fencing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fencing	cc
22	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fencing	nsubj
23	fencing	fence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 plain	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fencing	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	23 fencing	compound:prt
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 weather	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 weather	det
28	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 weather	amod
29	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fencing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	cud			with great trees; plain property	tree rules
2	fling	gerund	great trees not said here	trees's speckled shadows	cud		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over it=Destination
3	speckle	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	fence in	gerund	hills	cud	the rough weather		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
5	shadow		trees = tree				nom shadow «state transitive»: 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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