Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 51

The pair of dragons must have had very nimble wings; for, in less than an hour, Mother Ceres had alighted at the door of her home, and found it empty.

Who acts: pair, hour · What happens: have, alight, find · To what, where: nimble wings, Mother Ceres, door, home

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair, hour), 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 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 dragons	case
4	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 nimble	advmod
9	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wings	amod
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hour	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	18 hour	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hour	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 hour	case
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 hour	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 less	fixed
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hour	det
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 alighted	punct
20	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Ceres	compound
21	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 alighted	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 alighted	aux
23	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hour	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 door	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alighted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 home	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 home	nmod:poss
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 door	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	obj
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 found	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	must · perfect	the pair of dragons	nimble wings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	alight	past · perfect · passive	a hour not said here	Mother Ceres	the door of pair's home		tree rules
3	find	past		home		empty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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