Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 65

Their fierce nature was thoroughly tamed; and, with their fierceness, the two furnaces in their stomachs had likewise been extinguished, insomuch that they probably enjoyed far more comfort in grazing and chewing their cuds than ever before.

Who acts: two furnaces, streets · What happens: tame, be, enjoy, chew · To what, where: fierce nature, fierceness, more comfort, grazing, cuds

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two furnaces, streets), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nature	nmod:poss
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nature	amod
3	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tamed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tamed	aux:pass
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	6 tamed	advmod
6	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 fierceness	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fierceness	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fierceness	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 fierceness	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fierceness	nmod:poss
12	fierceness	fierceness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tamed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 furnaces	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 furnaces	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 furnaces	nummod
16	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 extinguished	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 stomachs	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stomachs	nmod:poss
19	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 furnaces	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 extinguished	aux
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	23 extinguished	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 extinguished	cop
23	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fierceness	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 insomuch	punct
25	insomuch	insomuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fierceness	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 enjoyed	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 enjoyed	nsubj
28	probably	probably	ADV	_	29 enjoyed	advmod
29	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 insomuch	acl
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 comfort	advmod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 comfort	amod
32	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 enjoyed	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 grazing	case
34	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 comfort	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 chewing	cc
36	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 comfort	conj
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 cuds	nmod:poss
38	cuds	cud	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 chewing	obj
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 ever	case
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 before	advmod
41	before	before	ADV	_	36 chewing	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tame	past · passive		streets's fierce nature		with streets's fierceness and insomuch; thoroughly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fierceness=Instrument
2	is	past · perfect	the two furnaces in streets's stomachs	streets's fierceness and insomuch not said here		extinguished, likewise property	tree rules
3	enjoy	past	streets = street	more comfort	grazing	probably property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comfort=Stimulus
4	chew	gerund	streets = street not said here	streets's cuds		before property	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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