Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 1

A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire.

Who acts: I · What happens: favor, fly, meet, quit · To what, where: I, flying visit, breezy mountains

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 favored	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 time	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 favored	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 favored	aux:pass
8	favored	favor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 visit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 visit	det
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 visit	amod
12	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 favored	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 friend	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friend	nmod:poss
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friend	amod
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	nmod
17	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 friend	appos
18	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Eustace	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 met	punct
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 met	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 met	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 met	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 before	advmod
24	before	before	ADV	_	25 met	advmod
25	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 visit	conj
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 quitting	mark
27	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 quitting	mark
28	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 met	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mountains	det
30	breezy	breezy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mountains	amod
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 quitting	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Berkshire	case
33	Berkshire	Berkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mountains	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 favored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	favor	past · passive		I	time	with a flying visit from my young friend	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past · perfect	I	a flying visit from my young friend		before property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	quit	gerund	I not said here	the breezy mountains of Berkshire			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Source

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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