Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 2

He planted some flowers on his mother's grave, and left them to grow there, and make the place beautiful, when he should be far away.

Who acts: smile · What happens: plant, leave, grow, make, be · To what, where: flowers, grave, place

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 (smile), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 planted	nsubj
2	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 planted	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 grave	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 planted	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 left	advcl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 grow	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 make	cc
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 planted	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 away	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 away	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 away	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 away	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 away	cop
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 away	advmod
29	away	away	ADV	_	19 make	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past	smile	some flowers	smile's mother's grave		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on grave=Destination
2	leave	past	smile not said here	flowers = flower			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	grow	to-infinitive	smile not said here		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	infinitive	smile not said here	the place		beautiful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product
5	is	should	smile			away, far property	tree rules

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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