Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 90

Her peacock, which had now fluttered down from her shoulder, strutted behind her in a prodigious pomp, and spread out its magnificent tail on purpose for Jason to admire it.

What happens: flutter down, strut, spread out, admire · To what, where: peacock, shoulder, prodigious pomp, magnificent tail, purpose, tail

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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 peacock	nmod:poss
2	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fluttered	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fluttered	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fluttered	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fluttered	aux
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fluttered	advmod
7	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 fluttered	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fluttered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strutted	punct
13	strutted	strut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fluttered	conj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strutted	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 pomp	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pomp	det
18	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pomp	amod
19	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strutted	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spread	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spread	cc
22	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fluttered	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 spread	compound:prt
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tail	nmod:poss
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tail	amod
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spread	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 purpose	case
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spread	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 Jason	case
30	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 spread	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 admire	mark
32	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spread	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 admire	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter down	past · perfect · passive	blessing's peacock	blessing's shoulder	now		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	strut	participle		a prodigious pomp		behind blessing	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Trajectory
3	spread out	infinitive	pomp's magnificent tail	purpose		for Jason	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on purpose=Destination
4	admire	to-infinitive	tail				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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