Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 5

But, from his earliest remembrance, Aethra used to go with little Theseus into a wood, and sit down upon a moss-grown rock, which was deeply sunken into the earth.

Who acts: Aethra, grown rock, Theseus · What happens: use, go, sit down, grow, be, remember · To what, where: earliest remembrance, wood, grown rock, earth

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 (Aethra, grown rock, Theseus), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 used	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remembrance	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 remembrance	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 remembrance	nmod:poss
5	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 remembrance	amod
6	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remembrance	punct
8	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Theseus	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Theseus	amod
14	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sit	cc
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 sit	advmod
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 rock	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rock	det
24	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grown	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 moss	punct
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rock	amod
27	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sunken	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sunken	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sunken	cop
31	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	32 sunken	advmod
32	sunken	sunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rock	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 earth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sunken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Aethra	Theseus's earliest remembrance		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	Aethra not said here	a wood	with little Theseus	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
3	sit down	infinitive	Aethra not said here	a grown rock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rock=Location
4	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	a grown rock	the earth	deeply, sunken property	tree rules
6	remember		Theseus			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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