Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 3

He lived in a cavern, and had the body and legs of a white horse, with the head and shoulders of a man.

Who acts: person · What happens: live, have · To what, where: cavern, body

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: who acts (person), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cavern	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cavern	det
5	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 legs	cc
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 body	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 horse	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 horse	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 horse	amod
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 head	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shoulders	cc
22	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 head	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 head	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	person			a cavern			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location
2	have	past	person not said here	the body and legs of a white horse				with the head of a man and shoulders	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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