Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 92

Around the walls were ranged two and twenty thrones, overhung by canopies of crimson and gold, and provided with the softest of cushions, which were tasselled and fringed with gold cord.

What happens: range, overhang, provide, tassell, fringe · To what, where: two thrones, walls, cushions

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Around	around	ADP	_	3 walls	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ranged	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ranged	aux:pass
5	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thrones	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 two	conj
9	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ranged	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overhung	punct
11	overhung	overhang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ranged	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 canopies	case
13	canopies	canopy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 overhung	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 crimson	case
15	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 canopies	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gold	cc
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crimson	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 provided	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 provided	cc
20	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ranged	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 softest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 softest	det
23	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 provided	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 cushions	case
25	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 softest	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tasselled	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 tasselled	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tasselled	aux:pass
29	tasselled	tassell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 cushions	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fringed	cc
31	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tasselled	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 cord	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cord	compound
34	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fringed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	range	past · passive	two thrones	the walls		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: throne=Theme
2	overhang	participle			by canopies of crimson and gold	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	provide	participle			soft property	vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
4	tassell	past · passive	cushions			tree rules
5	fringe	participle			with gold cord	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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