Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 80

After finishing the rest of their labors, they all went to bed betimes, in order to rise in the gray of the morning, and get at least the foundation of the edifice laid before nightfall.

Who acts: workmen · What happens: finish, go, rise, get, lay · To what, where: rest, bed, gray, foundation, least, edifice

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 (workmen), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 finishing	mark
2	finishing	finish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finishing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 labors	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 labors	nmod:poss
7	labors	labor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rest	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 finishing	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
14	betimes	betimes	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rise	punct
16	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 rise	mark
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 in	fixed
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rise	mark
19	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 went	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 gray	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gray	det
22	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rise	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 morning	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 morning	det
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gray	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
28	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 rise	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 foundation	nmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foundation	det
32	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 edifice	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edifice	det
35	edifice	edifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 foundation	nmod
36	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 edifice	acl
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 nightfall	case
38	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	gerund	workmen = workman not said here	the rest of workmen's labors			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rest=Eventuality
2	go	past	workmen = workman		bed	betimes property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	rise	to-infinitive			the gray of the morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gray=Location
4	get	infinitive		the foundation of the edifice	least		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme at least=Asset
5	lay	participle		the edifice not said here	nightfall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before nightfall=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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