Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 100

This was proved by the hamadryad, who, being exceedingly fond of mischief, threw another handful of acorns before the twenty-two newly-restored people; whereupon down they wallowed in a moment, and gobbled them up in a very shameful way.

Who acts: hamadryad, people · What happens: prove, be, throw, restore, wallow, gobble up · To what, where: This, handful, people, shameful way

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (hamadryad, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1394): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 proved	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proved	aux:pass
3	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hamadryad	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hamadryad	det
6	hamadryad	hamadryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proved	obl:agent
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 threw	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fond	punct
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fond	cop
11	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	12 fond	advmod
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 threw	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 mischief	case
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fond	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hamadryad	acl:relcl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 handful	det
18	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 acorns	case
20	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 handful	nmod
21	before	before	ADP	_	29 people	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 two	det
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 two	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 twenty	punct
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 people	nummod
26	newly	newly	ADV	_	28 restored	advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 newly	punct
28	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 threw	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 wallowed	punct
31	whereupon	whereupon	SCONJ	_	34 wallowed	mark
32	down	down	ADV	_	34 wallowed	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wallowed	nsubj
34	wallowed	wallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proved	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 moment	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 moment	det
37	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wallowed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 gobbled	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 gobbled	cc
40	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wallowed	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 gobbled	obj
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 gobbled	compound:prt
43	in	in	ADP	_	47 way	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 way	det
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 shameful	advmod
46	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 way	amod
47	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gobbled	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past · passive	the hamadryad	This				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	gerund	the hamadryad not said here				of mischief; exceedingly, fond property	tree rules
3	throw	past	the hamadryad	another handful of acorns		before two restored people		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme before people=Destination
4	restore	participle					newly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	wallow	past	people			moment	down property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	gobble up	past	people not said here	people	a shameful way			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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