Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 31

The moss grew over it thicker and thicker, until at last it looked almost like a soft green seat, with only a few gray knobs of granite peeping out.

Who acts: moss, rock, granite · What happens: grow, look, peep out · To what, where: rock

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moss, rock, granite), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moss	det
2	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	obl
6	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thicker	cc
8	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 thicker	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 looked	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looked	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
15	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 seat	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	20 seat	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 seat	det
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seat	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seat	amod
20	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knobs	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	27 knobs	case
23	only	only	ADV	_	27 knobs	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 knobs	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knobs	amod
26	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 knobs	amod
27	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looked	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 granite	case
29	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knobs	nmod
30	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 granite	acl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 peeping	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the moss	rock	thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
2	look	past	rock		like a soft green seat; at last	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme
3	peep out	gerund	granite not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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