Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 78

And when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes threatened to set the dogs upon her.

Who acts: menials · What happens: see, wither, speak, threaten, set · To what, where: sad woman, dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (menials), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 woman	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 anxious	cc
9	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	conj
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 torch	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 torch	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 torch	det
14	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 torch	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wreath	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wreath	det
20	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hand	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 poppies	case
22	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 poppies	amod
23	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wreath	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poppies	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spoke	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	nsubj
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
30	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	29 spoke	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 threatened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 threatened	cc
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 threatened	advmod
34	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 set	mark
36	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 threatened	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dogs	det
38	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 set	obj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 set	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	menials = menial	a sad woman	with a torch in child's hand and a wreath of withered poppies on child's head	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past	menials = menial		rudely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	threaten	participle	menials = menial not said here		sometimes property	tree rules
5	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	menials = menial not said here	the dogs	upon child	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme upon she=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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