Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 21
They were handsomely embroidered, and were tied upon his feet with strings of gold.
What happens: embroider, tie · To what, where: sandals
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 3 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 4 embroidered | advmod |
| 4 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tied | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tied | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tied | aux:pass |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 embroidered | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tied | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 strings | case |
| 13 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strings | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 embroidered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | past · passive | sandals = sandal | handsomely property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | tie | past · passive | upon Jason's feet; with strings of gold | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: with string=Co-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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