Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 10

So she stepped into the cave, and sat down on the withered leaves by the dog-headed woman's side.

Who acts: Ceres · What happens: step, sit down, wither · To what, where: cave, withered leaves

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ceres), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stepped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	nsubj
3	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cave	det
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
13	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	22 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 headed	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 dog	punct
19	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 woman	case
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	Ceres	the cave		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination
2	sit down	past	Ceres not said here	the withered leaves	by the headed woman's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location
3	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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