Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 12

It is a mere skeleton of slender, decaying tree trunks, with neither walls nor a roof; nothing but a tracery of branches and twigs, which the next wintry blast will be very likely to scatter in fragments along the terrace.

Who acts: thing, tracery · What happens: be, decay, scatter · To what, where: mere skeleton, tree trunks, fragments

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 (thing, tracery), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skeleton	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 skeleton	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 skeleton	det
4	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skeleton	amod
5	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 slender	case
7	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skeleton	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 decaying	punct
9	decaying	decay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 slender	advcl
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trunks	compound
11	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decaying	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walls	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decaying	obl
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 roof	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 roof	det
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walls	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 skeleton	parataxis
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tracery	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tracery	det
23	tracery	tracery	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 branches	case
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tracery	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 twigs	cc
27	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 branches	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 likely	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 likely	nsubj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 blast	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blast	amod
32	wintry	wintry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blast	amod
33	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 likely	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 likely	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 likely	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 likely	advmod
37	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tracery	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 scatter	mark
39	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 likely	xcomp
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 fragments	case
41	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 scatter	obl
42	along	along	ADP	_	44 terrace	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 terrace	det
44	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 scatter	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 skeleton	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	thing	a mere skeleton			tree rules
2	decay	gerund	thing not said here	tree trunks		with neither walls nor a roof	tree rules
3	is	future	a tracery of branches and twigs			likely property	tree rules
4	scatter	to-infinitive	a tracery of branches and twigs not said here		fragments	along the terrace	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fragment=Destination

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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