Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 66

In a moment or two, however, the leaves of the oak began to stir and rustle, as if a gentle breeze were wandering amongst them, although the other trees of the wood were perfectly still.

Who acts: leaves, gentle breeze, other trees · What happens: begin, stir, rustle, wonder, be

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, gentle breeze, other trees), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	obl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 two	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 moment	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 oak	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oak	det
13	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	nmod
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stir	mark
16	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rustle	cc
18	rustle	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stir	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wandering	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 wandering	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 wandering	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 breeze	det
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 breeze	amod
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wandering	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wandering	aux
26	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 began	advcl
27	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wandering	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trees	punct
30	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 trees	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wandering	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trees	nmod
37	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 trees	acl
38	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	39 still	advmod
39	still	still	ADV	_	37 were	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the leaves of the oak	moment	however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stir	to-infinitive	the leaves of the oak not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	rustle	infinitive	the leaves of the oak not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	a gentle breeze		amongst leaves = leaf; although the other trees of the wood	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	be	past	the other trees of the wood not said here	still		vn exist-47.1 «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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