Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 32

The overhanging trees, also, shed their brown leaves upon it, as often as the autumn came; and at its base grew ferns and wild flowers, some of which crept quite over its surface.

Who acts: overhanging trees, autumn, ferns, some · What happens: overhang, shed, come, grow, creep · To what, where: brown leaves, base, surface

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 (overhanging trees, autumn, ferns, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:102): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	overhanging	overhang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	7 shed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 also	punct
7	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leaves	nmod:poss
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leaves	amod
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shed	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 often	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 often	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	7 shed	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 autumn	det
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 often	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 base	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 base	nmod:poss
24	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	obl
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shed	conj
26	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grew	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flowers	cc
28	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flowers	amod
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ferns	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crept	punct
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 crept	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 some	nmod
34	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ferns	acl:relcl
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 surface	advmod
36	over	over	ADP	_	38 surface	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 surface	nmod:poss
38	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 crept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overhang	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	shed	past	the overhanging trees	trees's brown leaves		upon rock; often property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Source
3	come	past	the autumn				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	ferns and wild flowers		rock's base		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at base=Location
5	creep	past	some		rock's surface		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over surface=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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