Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 88

It was now easy to yoke the bulls, and to harness them to the plow, which had lain rusting on the ground for a great many years gone by; so long was it before anybody could be found capable of plowing that piece of land.

What happens: be, yoke, harness, lie, rust, go by · To what, where: bulls, plow, ground, great many years, spell, piece

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 yoke	mark
6	yoke	yoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bulls	det
8	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yoke	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 harness	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 harness	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 harness	mark
12	harness	harness	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 harness	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 plow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plow	det
16	plow	plow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 harness	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lain	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lain	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lain	aux
20	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 plow	acl:relcl
21	rusting	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 lain	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rusting	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 years	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 years	amod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rusting	obl
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 years	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	30 gone	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 found	advmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 found	aux:pass
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 found	nsubj:pass
37	before	before	SCONJ	_	41 found	mark
38	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 found	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 found	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 found	aux:pass
41	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 easy	conj
42	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 found	xcomp
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 plowing	mark
44	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 capable	advcl
45	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 piece	det
46	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 plowing	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 land	case
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 piece	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				now	easy property	tree rules
2	yoke	to-infinitive		the bulls				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bull=Destination
3	harness	to-infinitive	bulls = bull				to the plow	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to plow=Co-Patient
4	lie	past · perfect · passive	the plow					tree rules
5	rust	gerund			the ground	year		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	go by	participle	a great many years not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	find	could · past · passive	spell				capable, long property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	plow	gerund	that piece of land					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Initial_Location

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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