Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 56

Eustace informed me that he had told his stories to the children in various situations--in the woods, on the shore of the lake, in the dell of Shadow Brook, in the playroom, at Tanglewood fireside, and in a magnificent palace of snow, with ice windows, which he helped his little friends to build.

Who acts: Eustace, ice windows, little friends · What happens: inform, tell, help, build · To what, where: me, stories, children, woods, little friends · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Eustace, ice windows, little friends), 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	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 informed	nsubj
2	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 informed	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 informed	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stories	nmod:poss
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 children	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stories	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 situations	case
14	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 situations	amod
15	situations	situation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 children	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 woods	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 woods	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woods	det
19	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shore	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 shore	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shore	det
23	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lake	det
26	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shore	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dell	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 dell	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dell	det
30	dell	dell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Shadow	case
32	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dell	nmod
33	Brook	Brook	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Shadow	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 playroom	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 playroom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 playroom	det
37	playroom	playroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fireside	punct
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 fireside	case
40	Tanglewood	Tanglewood	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 fireside	compound
41	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 palace	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 palace	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 palace	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 palace	det
46	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 palace	amod
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 informed	parataxis
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 snow	case
49	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 palace	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 windows	punct
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 windows	case
52	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 windows	compound
53	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 palace	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 helped	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 helped	nsubj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 helped	nsubj
57	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 windows	acl:relcl
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 friends	nmod:poss
59	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 friends	amod
60	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 helped	obj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 build	mark
62	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 helped	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	Eustace		me			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Eustace	Eustace's stories	the children in various situations	the woods	on the shore of the lake; in the dell of Shadow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to child=Recipient
3	help	past	ice windows	Eustace's little friends				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	build	to-infinitive	Eustace's little friends not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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