Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 81

But after a while, Jason observed that the foliage of a great branch which stretched above his head had begun to rustle, as if the wind were stirring that one bough, while all the other boughs of the oak were at rest.

Who acts: Jason, foliage, wind, other boughs · What happens: observe, stretch, begin, rustle, stir, be · To what, where: head, rest

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 (Jason, foliage, wind, other boughs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 observed	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 while	punct
6	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 observed	nsubj
7	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 begun	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foliage	det
10	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begun	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 branch	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 branch	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 branch	amod
14	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 foliage	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stretched	nsubj
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 foliage	acl:relcl
17	above	above	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stretched	obl
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 begun	aux
21	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 observed	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rustle	mark
23	rustle	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 begun	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stirring	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 stirring	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 stirring	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stirring	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stirring	aux
30	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rustle	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 bough	mark
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 bough	nummod
33	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stirring	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rest	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 rest	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 boughs	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boughs	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boughs	amod
39	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 rest	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 oak	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 oak	det
42	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 boughs	nmod
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 rest	cop
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 rest	case
45	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begun	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	observe	past	Jason		while	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stretch	past	the foliage of a great branch	Jason's head		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past · perfect	the foliage of a great branch			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	rustle	to-infinitive	the foliage of a great branch not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stir	past · progressive	the wind			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	all other boughs of the oak	rest		tree rules

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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