Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 14

I made Eustace Bright sit down on a snow bank, which had heaped itself over the mossy seat, and gazing through the arched windows opposite, he acknowledged that the scene at once grew picturesque.

Who acts: I, Eustace · What happens: make, sit down, heap, gaze, arch, acknowledge · To what, where: snow bank, mossy seat, scene

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, Eustace), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sit	nsubj
4	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Eustace	flat
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 bank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bank	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bank	compound
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heaped	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heaped	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heaped	aux
14	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bank	acl:relcl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 heaped	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	19 seat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seat	det
18	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seat	amod
19	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heaped	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gazing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gazing	cc
22	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
23	through	through	ADP	_	26 windows	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 windows	det
25	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 windows	amod
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gazing	obl
27	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gazing	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 acknowledged	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 acknowledged	nsubj
30	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 scene	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 scene	det
33	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 acknowledged	obj
34	at	at	SCONJ	_	36 grew	mark
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 grew	advmod
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 acknowledged	advcl
37	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	I				tree rules
2	sit down	present	Eustace		a snow bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
3	heap	past · perfect · passive		a snow bank	the mossy seat		tree rules
4	gaze	gerund	I not said here			through the arched windows; opposite property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
5	arch	participle					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	acknowledge	past	Eustace	the scene			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Topic
7	grow	past	Eustace not said here			once, picturesque property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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