Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 87

The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth.

Who acts: latter, nymph, two hogs, comrades · What happens: be, throw, scramble, fight, taste · To what, where: hamadryad, handful, much

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 (latter, nymph, two hogs, comrades), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nymph	det
2	nymph	nymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bodice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bodice	det
5	bodice	bodice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nymph	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bark	case
7	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bark	amod
8	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bodice	nmod
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 hamadryad	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hamadryad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hamadryad	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hamadryad	det
13	hamadryad	hamadryad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bark	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 oak	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 oak	det
16	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hamadryad	nmod
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 hamadryad	punct
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handful	det
20	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 acorns	case
22	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 handful	nmod
23	among	among	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 acorns	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 scrambled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 scrambled	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hogs	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hogs	nummod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 twenty	cc
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 two	conj
31	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 scrambled	nsubj
32	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 threw	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fought	cc
34	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 scrambled	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 prize	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 prize	det
37	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fought	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tasted	punct
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 tasted	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 tasted	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tasted	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 tasted	aux
43	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 scrambled	conj
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 much	advmod
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 much	advmod
46	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tasted	obj
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 noggin	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 noggin	det
49	noggin	noggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 much	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 milk	case
51	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 milk	amod
52	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 noggin	nmod
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 twelvemonth	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 twelvemonth	det
55	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 milk	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	latter	the hamadryad	of a oak	tree rules
2	throw	past	the nymph with the bodice of oaken bark	a handful of acorns among comrades		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
3	scramble	past	the two hogs			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fight	past	the two hogs not said here		for the prize	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	taste a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	comrades = comrade	much	as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent much=Theme as noggin=Value

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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