Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 8

And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trotting their grandchildren on their knees, they told them about the sports of their school days; and these young folks took the idea that their grandfathers had been taught their letters by a Centaur, half man and half horse.

Who acts: scholars, young folks, Centaur, school days · What happens: grow up, grow, trot, tell, take, teach · To what, where: grandchildren, knees, idea, grandfathers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (scholars, young folks, Centaur, school days), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 grown	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 grown	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grown	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 scholars	nmod:poss
6	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grown	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grown	cc
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 grown	conj
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grown	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trotting	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trotting	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trotting	aux
17	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 grown	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grandchildren	nmod:poss
19	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trotting	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trotting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 sports	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sports	det
29	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 told	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 days	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 days	nmod:poss
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 days	compound
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sports	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 took	cc
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 folks	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 folks	amod
38	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 told	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 idea	det
41	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 taught	mark
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 grandfathers	nmod:poss
44	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 taught	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 taught	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 taught	aux:pass
47	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 took	advcl
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 letters	nmod:poss
49	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 taught	obj
50	by	by	ADP	_	52 Centaur	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 Centaur	det
52	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 taught	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
54	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	55 man	amod
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Centaur	appos
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 horse	cc
57	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	58 horse	compound
58	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 man	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · perfect	boy's scholars					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle	boy's scholars not said here				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trot	past · progressive	boy's scholars not said here	scholars's grandchildren		scholars's knees		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grandchild=Theme on knee=Trajectory
4	tell speech: assert	past	scholars = scholar		grandchildren = grandchild		about the sports of scholars's school days	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about sport=Topic
5	take	past	this young folks	the idea				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
6	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	a Centaur	scholars's grandfathers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient letter=Topic
7	sport		scholars's school days					nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent
8	letter		scholars = scholar					nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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