Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 12

As the neighboring inhabitants carefully avoided the spot, it was now a long time (not less than a hundred years or thereabouts) since the monster had broken his fast; and, as was natural enough, his appetite had grown to be enormous, and was not half satisfied by the poor people whom he had just eaten up.

Who acts: neighboring inhabitants, spot, appetite, poor people · What happens: avoid, be, break, grow, not satisfy, eat up · To what, where: spot, long time, monster, poor people

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighboring inhabitants, spot, appetite, poor people), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 avoided	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 inhabitants	det
3	neighboring	neighboring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 inhabitants	amod
4	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 avoided	nsubj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	6 avoided	advmod
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoided	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 avoided	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 time	cop
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 time	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoided	parataxis
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 less	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 time	amod
19	than	than	ADP	_	22 years	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 years	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 less	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 thereabouts	cc
24	thereabouts	thereabout	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 years	conj
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 less	punct
26	since	since	SCONJ	_	30 broken	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 monster	det
28	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 broken	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 broken	aux
30	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 less	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fast	nmod:poss
32	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 broken	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 grown	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 grown	cc
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 and	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 natural	mark
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 natural	cop
38	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grown	advcl
39	enough	enough	ADV	_	38 natural	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 natural	punct
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 appetite	nmod:poss
42	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 grown	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 grown	aux
44	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 avoided	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	47 enormous	mark
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 enormous	cop
47	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grown	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 satisfied	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 satisfied	cc
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 satisfied	aux:pass
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 satisfied	advmod
52	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	53 satisfied	advmod
53	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 avoided	parataxis
54	by	by	ADP	_	57 people	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 people	det
56	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 people	amod
57	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 satisfied	obl
58	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 eaten	obl
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 eaten	nsubj
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 eaten	aux
61	just	just	ADV	_	62 eaten	advmod
62	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 people	acl:relcl
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 eaten	compound:prt
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	past	the neighboring inhabitants	the spot		carefully property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent spot=Location
2	is a	past	spot	a long time	now		tree rules
3	break	past · perfect · passive		the monster			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	monster's appetite not said here			enough, natural property	tree rules
5	grow	past · perfect	monster's appetite				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	monster's appetite not said here			enormous property	tree rules
7	not satisfy	past · passive	the poor people			half property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	eat up	past · perfect	appetite	the poor people			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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