Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 19

But in the days of Cadmus, as I have told you, there was only this rustic bower, with its abundance of green foliage, and a tuft of shrubbery, that ran wild over the mysterious hole in the hillside.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: tell, be, run · To what, where: Cadmus, you, rustic bower, mysterious hole · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 bower	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 days	det
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 was	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Cadmus	case
6	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 days	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Cadmus	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bower	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 bower	advmod
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 bower	det
18	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bower	amod
19	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 abundance	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 abundance	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 abundance	nmod:poss
23	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bower	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 foliage	case
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 foliage	amod
26	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 abundance	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tuft	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tuft	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tuft	det
30	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bower	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 shrubbery	case
32	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tuft	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tuft	parataxis
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ran	xcomp
37	over	over	ADP	_	40 hole	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hole	det
39	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hole	amod
40	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 hillside	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 hillside	det
43	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hole	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 bower	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I	Cadmus not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	past		this rustic bower and bower's abundance of green foliage and a tuft of shrubbery				tree rules
3	run	past	that			the mysterious hole in the hillside	wild property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hole=Trajectory

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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