Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 18
In later times, when multitudes of people came from great distances to put questions to the oracle, a spacious temple of marble was erected over the spot.
Who acts: multitudes · What happens: come, put, erect · To what, where: questions, spacious temple, spot
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 (multitudes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 6 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 multitudes | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 distances | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 distances | amod |
| 12 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 oracle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oracle | det |
| 18 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 temple | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 temple | det |
| 21 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 temple | amod |
| 22 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oracle | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 marble | case |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 erected | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 erected | aux:pass |
| 26 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 temple | acl:relcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 spot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spot | det |
| 29 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 erected | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | multitudes of people | time | from great distances | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | multitudes of people not said here | questions | to the oracle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | |||
| 3 | erect | past · passive | a spacious temple not said here | the spot | of marble | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
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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