Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 56
Yes, it was raised slowly from the bedded moss and earth, uprooting the shrubs and flowers along with it, and was turned upon its side.
What happens: raise, bed, uproot, turn · To what, where: rock, bedded moss, shrubs, side
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: 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 raised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raised | aux:pass |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 raised | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 moss | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moss | det |
| 9 | bedded | bed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 moss | amod |
| 10 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raised | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 earth | cc |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moss | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 uprooting | punct |
| 14 | uprooting | uproot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 raised | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shrubs | det |
| 16 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 uprooting | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flowers | cc |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shrubs | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 uprooting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | aux:pass |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 raised | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 side | nmod:poss |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · passive | rock | the bedded moss and earth | slowly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from moss=Destination | |||
| 2 | bed | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | uproot | gerund | the shrubs and flowers | along rock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrub=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past · passive | rock's side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: upon side=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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