Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 117

And there lies my faithful mastiff at the threshold.

What happens: lie · To what, where: faithful mastiff, threshold

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 lies	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lies	expl
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mastiff	nmod:poss
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mastiff	amod
6	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 threshold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 threshold	det
9	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present		my faithful mastiff		the threshold; there			tree rules

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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