Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 91

So Jason scattered them broadcast, and harrowed them into the soil with a brush-harrow, and took his stand on the edge of the field, anxious to see what would happen next.

Who acts: Jason · What happens: scatter, broadcast, harrow, take, see, happen · To what, where: teeth, soil, stand, edge · 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 (Jason), 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	_	3 scattered	advmod
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scattered	nsubj
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scattered	obj
5	broadcast	broadcast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 harrowed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 harrowed	cc
8	harrowed	harrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 harrowed	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 soil	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harrowed	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 harrow	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 harrow	det
15	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 harrow	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 brush	punct
17	harrow	harrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harrowed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stand	nmod:poss
22	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 edge	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 edge	det
25	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 field	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 field	det
28	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 edge	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 anxious	punct
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 took	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 anxious	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 happen	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 happen	aux
35	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 see	ccomp
36	next	next	ADV	_	35 happen	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	Jason	teeth = tooth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	broadcast speech: other	past	Jason not said here				vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	harrow	past	Jason not said here	teeth = tooth	the soil	with a brush harrow	tree rules
4	take	past	Jason not said here	Jason's stand	the edge of the field		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stand=Theme on edge=Destination
5	see	to-infinitive	Jason not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	would				next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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