Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 85

He therefore quickened his pace, and had gone a good way along the pleasant wood path, when there met him a young man of very brisk and intelligent aspect, and clad in a rather singular garb.

Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: quicken, go, meet, clad · To what, where: pace, good way, Ulysses, singular garb

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (Ulysses), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quickened	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 quickened	advmod
3	quickened	quicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pace	nmod:poss
5	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quickened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 quickened	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 way	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obj
13	along	along	ADP	_	17 path	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 path	det
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 path	amod
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 path	compound
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 met	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 met	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 met	expl
21	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 met	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 met	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 aspect	case
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 brisk	advmod
28	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 aspect	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 intelligent	cc
30	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 brisk	conj
31	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 clad	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 clad	cc
34	clad	clad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quickened	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 garb	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 garb	det
37	rather	rather	ADV	_	38 singular	advmod
38	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 garb	amod
39	garb	garb	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 clad	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quickened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quicken	past	Ulysses	Ulysses's pace		therefore property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient
2	go	past · perfect	Ulysses not said here	a good way		along the pleasant wood path	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	meet	past	Ulysses not said here	Ulysses	there		tree rules
4	clad	past	Ulysses not said here		a singular garb		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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