Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 62

"There they are," said she, "reposing themselves and chewing their fiery cuds in that farthest corner of the field.

Who acts: princesses, moon · What happens: be, say, repose, chew · To what, where: princesses, fiery cuds, farthest corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, moon), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 are	nsubj
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 are	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reposing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 reposing	punct
11	reposing	repose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 reposing	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chewing	cc
14	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reposing	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cuds	nmod:poss
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cuds	amod
17	cuds	cud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chewing	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 corner	det
20	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 corner	amod
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chewing	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 field	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 field	det
24	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 corner	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	princesses = princess		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	moon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	repose in a quote	gerund	moon not said here	princesses = princess		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
4	chew in a quote	gerund	moon not said here	princesses's fiery cuds	that farthest corner of the field	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient

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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