Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 77

So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began their work; and for a good while afterwards, there they were, busily employed, hewing out the timbers, and making a great clatter with their hammers; until the new ship, which was called the Argo, seemed to be quite ready for sea.

Who acts: head carpenter, carpenter · What happens: begin, employ, hew out, make, call, seem · To what, where: work, carpenter, timbers, great clatter, new ship · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (head carpenter, carpenter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 carpenter	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carpenter	compound
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 journeymen	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 journeymen	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 journeymen	nmod:poss
8	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carpenter	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 apprentices	cc
10	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 journeymen	conj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 work	nmod:poss
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 while	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 while	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 while	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 while	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 while	amod
19	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
20	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	19 while	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 employed	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 employed	expl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 employed	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 employed	aux
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 employed	punct
26	busily	busily	ADV	_	27 employed	advmod
27	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 while	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hewing	punct
29	hewing	hew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 employed	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 hewing	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 timbers	det
32	timbers	timber	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hewing	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 making	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 making	cc
35	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hewing	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 clatter	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 clatter	amod
38	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 making	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 hammers	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hammers	nmod:poss
41	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 making	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 ship	punct
43	until	until	ADP	_	46 ship	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ship	det
45	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ship	amod
46	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 called	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 called	nsubj:pass
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 called	aux:pass
50	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 ship	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Argo	det
52	Argo	Argo	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 called	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 seemed	punct
54	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	parataxis
55	to	to	PART	_	58 ready	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 ready	cop
57	quite	quite	ADV	_	58 ready	advmod
58	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 seemed	xcomp
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 sea	case
60	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 ready	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the head carpenter and Argus's journeymen and apprentices	carpenter's work		while		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	employ	past · passive		carpenter	there		busily property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hew out	gerund		the timbers				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Patient
4	make	gerund		a great clatter			with carpenter's hammers	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clatter=Product
5	call	past · passive		the new ship				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	seem	past						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive					for sea; ready property	tree rules
8	work		carpenter					nom work «act intransitive»: 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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