Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 52

Then, getting leisurely upon her feet, and giving her head a gentle toss, she began to move along at a moderate pace, often pausing just long enough to crop a mouthful of grass.

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: get, give, begin, move along, pause, crop · To what, where: head, mouthful

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 (Cadmus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 getting	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
4	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	_	3 getting	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 getting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 giving	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 giving	cc
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 getting	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 giving	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 toss	det
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 toss	amod
15	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 giving	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 getting	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 move	mark
20	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 move	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 pace	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pace	det
24	moderate	moderate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pace	amod
25	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 move	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pausing	punct
27	often	often	ADV	_	28 pausing	advmod
28	pausing	pause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 began	advcl
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 long	advmod
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 pausing	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 long	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 crop	mark
33	crop	crop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pausing	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mouthful	det
35	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crop	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 grass	case
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mouthful	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	Cadmus not said here		then	upon Cadmus's feet; leisurely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	gerund	Cadmus not said here	Cadmus's head			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent head=Recipient toss=Theme
3	begin	past	Cadmus				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	move along	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here			at a moderate pace; along property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory
5	pause	gerund	Cadmus not said here			long, often property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	crop	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	a mouthful of grass			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient

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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