Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 15

Then going on board, the mariners trimmed the vessel's black sails to the wind, which blew faintly off the shore, being pretty much made up of the sighs that everybody kept pouring forth on this melancholy occasion.

Who acts: mariners, wind, everybody, sighs · What happens: go on, trim, blow, make up, keep, pour · To what, where: board, black sails, sighs, melancholy occasion

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mariners, wind, everybody, sighs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 going	advmod
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 trimmed	advcl
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 going	compound:prt
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 going	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mariners	det
7	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trimmed	nsubj
8	trimmed	trim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vessel	det
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sails	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 vessel	case
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sails	amod
13	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trimmed	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trimmed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blew	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 blew	nsubj
19	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wind	acl:relcl
20	faintly	faintly	ADV	_	19 blew	advmod
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 shore	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shore	det
23	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 made	aux:pass
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 trimmed	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 made	compound:prt
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sighs	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sighs	det
32	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 kept	obj
34	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 kept	nsubj
35	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sighs	acl:relcl
36	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 kept	xcomp
37	forth	forth	ADV	_	36 pouring	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 occasion	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 occasion	det
40	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 occasion	compound
41	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pouring	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 trimmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	gerund	the mariners not said here	board		then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	trim	past	the mariners	the vessel's black sails			to the wind	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient
3	blow	past	the wind				off the shore; faintly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off shore=Co-Patient
4	make up	gerund · passive	the mariners not said here				of the sighs	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»
5	keep	past	everybody	the sighs				tree rules
6	pour	gerund	the sighs not said here		this melancholy occasion		forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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