Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 22

Pulling away the shrubbery which clustered over the hole, he bent forward, and spoke in a distinct but reverential tone, as if addressing some unseen personage inside of the mountain.

Who acts: Delphi, shrubbery · What happens: pull away, cluster, bend, speak, address · To what, where: shrubbery, hole, distinct tone, unseen personage, mountain · 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 (Delphi, shrubbery), 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	Pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bent	advcl
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Pulling	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shrubbery	det
4	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulling	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 clustered	nsubj
6	clustered	cluster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrubbery	acl:relcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clustered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pulling	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bent	nsubj
12	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 bent	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spoke	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spoke	cc
16	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bent	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	22 tone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tone	det
19	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tone	amod
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 reverential	cc
21	reverential	reverential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distinct	conj
22	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spoke	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 addressing	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 addressing	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 addressing	mark
26	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spoke	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 personage	det
28	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 personage	amod
29	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 addressing	obj
30	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 mountain	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 inside	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mountain	det
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 addressing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull away	gerund	Delphi not said here	the shrubbery		away property	tree rules
2	cluster	past	the shrubbery		the hole		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bend	past	Delphi			forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	past	Delphi not said here		a distinct tone		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	address	gerund	Delphi not said here	some unseen personage	the mountain		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personage=Destination

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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