Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 126

Cerberus, on the other hand, was evidently rejoiced to see his master, and expressed his attachment, as other dogs do, by wagging his tail at a great rate.

Who acts: other dogs, Cerberus · What happens: rejoice, see, express, do, wag, attach · To what, where: Cerberus, master, attachment, tail, great rate

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 (other dogs, Cerberus), 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	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rejoiced	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cerberus	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cerberus	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rejoiced	aux:pass
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	10 rejoiced	advmod
10	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rejoiced	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 master	nmod:poss
14	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 expressed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 expressed	cc
17	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rejoiced	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 attachment	nmod:poss
19	attachment	attachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 expressed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 do	mark
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dogs	amod
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 do	nsubj
24	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 expressed	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wagging	punct
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 wagging	mark
27	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 do	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wagging	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 rate	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rate	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rate	amod
33	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wagging	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · passive		Cerberus		evidently property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Cerberus's master			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus
3	express	past		Cerberus's attachment			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attachment=Theme
4	do	present	other dogs				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wag	gerund	other dogs not said here	Cerberus's tail	a great rate		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
6	attach		Cerberus				nom attachment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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