Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 51

In the chariot sat the figure of a man, richly dressed, with a crown on his head, all flaming with diamonds.

Who acts: all · What happens: sit, dress, flame, figure · To what, where: figure, chariot, man

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 (all), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 chariot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chariot	det
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 figure	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dressed	punct
11	richly	richly	ADV	_	12 dressed	advmod
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crown	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 crown	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 crown	det
16	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dressed	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crown	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flaming	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 flaming	nsubj
22	flaming	flame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dressed	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 diamonds	case
24	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flaming	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the figure of a man	the chariot		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in chariot=Location
2	dress	participle				with a crown on man's head; richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	flame	gerund	all			with diamonds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme
4	figure			a man			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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