Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 27

Now and then, a drowned sheep, and once the carcass of a cow, floated past.

What happens: drown, float

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 floated	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sheep	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sheep	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sheep	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sheep	amod
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 floated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 floated	cc
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	12 carcass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 carcass	det
12	carcass	carcass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 floated	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 cow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carcass	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carcass	punct
17	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	past	past	ADV	_	17 floated	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	float	past					now	once the carcass of a cow; past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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