Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 122

The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his fore paws on the chariot wheel.

Who acts: mastiff · What happens: speak, get up, stand, put · To what, where: threshold, hinder legs, fore paws, chariot wheel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mastiff), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mastiff	det
2	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 got	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 got	amod
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 mastiff	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 threshold	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 threshold	det
12	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 legs	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 legs	nmod:poss
18	hinder	hinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 legs	compound
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 put	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stood	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 paws	nmod:poss
26	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 paws	amod
27	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 wheel	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wheel	det
30	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wheel	compound
31	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get up	past · perfect	mastiff		the threshold	of the mastiff	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location from threshold=Destination
3	stand	past	the mastiff		mastiff's hinder legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
4	put	to-infinitive	the mastiff not said here	mastiff's fore paws	the chariot wheel		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on wheel=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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