Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 83

It was built of marble and other beautiful kinds of stone, and rose high into the air, with a splendid dome and a portico along the front, and carved pillars, and everything else that befitted the habitation of a mighty king.

Who acts: that · What happens: build, rise, carve, befit · To what, where: palace, air, pillars, everything

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 (that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	aux:pass
3	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 marble	case
5	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kinds	cc
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 marble	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 stone	case
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kinds	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rose	cc
14	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	parataxis
15	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 rose	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dome	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 dome	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dome	det
22	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dome	amod
23	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 portico	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 portico	det
26	portico	portico	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dome	conj
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 front	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 front	det
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 portico	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carved	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 carved	cc
32	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rose	conj
33	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 carved	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 befitted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 befitted	cc
36	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	39 befitted	obj
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 everything	advmod
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 befitted	nsubj
39	befitted	befit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 habitation	det
41	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 befitted	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 king	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 king	det
44	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 king	amod
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 habitation	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		palace		of marble and other beautiful kinds of stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	rise	past			the air	with a splendid dome and a portico along the front; high property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
3	carve	past		pillars			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme
4	befit	past	that	everything			tree rules

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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