Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 49

The servants knew him both by his face and garb; for his short cloak, and his winged cap and shoes, and his snaky staff had often been seen thereabouts in times gone by.

Who acts: servants · What happens: know, wing, see, go by · To what, where: Quicksilver, winged cap, times

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	obj
5	both	both	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 garb	cc
10	garb	garb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 cloak	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 cloak	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cloak	nmod:poss
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloak	amod
15	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seen	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seen	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cap	nmod:poss
19	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cap	amod
20	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shoes	cc
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cap	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seen	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seen	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 staff	nmod:poss
26	snaky	snaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 staff	amod
27	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
29	often	often	ADV	_	31 seen	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 seen	aux:pass
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	conj
32	thereabouts	thereabout	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seen	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 times	case
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seen	obl
35	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 times	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	35 gone	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the servants	Quicksilver		by Quicksilver's face and garb; for Quicksilver's short cloak; both property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past · perfect · passive		Quicksilver's winged cap and shoes	time	often property	tree rules
4	go by	participle		times not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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