Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 94

And once, while crossing a solitary sheep pasture, she saw a personage named Pan, seated at the foot of a tall rock, and making music on a shepherd's flute.

Who acts: child · What happens: cross, see, name, seat, make · To what, where: solitary sheep pasture, personage, foot, music, flute

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 (child), 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	_	12 saw	cc
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 saw	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 once	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 crossing	mark
5	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pasture	det
7	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pasture	amod
8	sheep	sheep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pasture	amod
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crossing	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 personage	det
14	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 personage	acl
16	Pan	Pan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 named	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
18	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 personage	acl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 foot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foot	det
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rock	det
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rock	amod
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 foot	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 making	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 making	cc
28	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 saw	advcl
29	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 making	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	34 flute	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shepherd	det
32	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flute	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 shepherd	case
34	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 making	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	child not said here	a solitary sheep pasture			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Patient
2	see	past	child	a personage		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer personage=Stimulus
3	name	participle		a personage not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	seat	participle		a personage not said here	the foot of a tall rock		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
5	make	gerund	child not said here	music	a shepherd's flute		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product

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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