Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 96

While they were talking of these schemes, and beguiling the tediousness of the way with laying out the plan of the new city, one of the company happened to look at the cow.

Who acts: strangers, way, company · What happens: talk, beguile, lay out, happen, look, plan · To what, where: tediousness, plan, new city

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 (strangers, way, company), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 talking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 schemes	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 schemes	det
7	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beguiling	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beguiling	cc
10	beguiling	beguile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 talking	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tediousness	det
12	tediousness	tediousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beguiling	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tediousness	nmod
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 laying	mark
17	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 way	acl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 laying	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plan	det
20	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laying	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 city	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 city	amod
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plan	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 beguiling	obj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 happened	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 company	det
29	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 happened	nsubj
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 happened	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 cow	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cow	det
35	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 look	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	strangers = stranger		of this schemes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beguile	gerund	strangers = stranger not said here	the tediousness of the way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus tediousness=Experiencer one=Result
3	lay out	gerund	the way not said here	the plan of the new city		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
4	happen	past	the company			tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	the company not said here		at the cow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cow=Theme
6	plan			the new city		nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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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