Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 12

They brought along with them a great many beautiful shells; and sitting down on the moist sand, where the surf wave broke over them, they busied themselves in making a necklace, which they hung round Proserpina's neck.

Who acts: dragons, surf wave · What happens: bring along, sit down, break, busy, make, hang · To what, where: great many beautiful shells, moist sand, dragons, necklace

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: who acts (dragons, surf wave), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/12/