Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 41

It was not more than a year afterwards when they were again sitting on the moss-covered stone.

Who acts: stem, troubles · What happens: not be, sit, cover · To what, where: covered stone

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 (stem, troubles), 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 more	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 more	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 more	obl
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 year	advmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 sitting	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sitting	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
12	again	again	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 more	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	19 stone	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
16	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covered	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 moss	punct
18	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 more	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	stem		year	more property	tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	troubles = trouble	the covered stone	again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
3	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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