Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 16

But by and by, when they had got fairly out to sea, there came a stiff breeze from the north-west, and drove them along as merrily over the white-capped waves as if they had been going on the most delightful errand imaginable.

Who acts: mariners · What happens: get, come, drive, cap, go · To what, where: stiff breeze, north west, mariners, delightful errand

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), 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	_	16 came	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 by	cc
4	by	by	ADP	_	2 by	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	aux
9	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
10	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	11 out	advmod
11	out	out	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 sea	case
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 out	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 breeze	det
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 breeze	amod
19	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 west	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 west	det
22	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 west	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 north	punct
24	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breeze	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drove	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drove	cc
27	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drove	obj
29	along	along	ADV	_	27 drove	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 merrily	advmod
31	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	27 drove	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	37 waves	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 waves	det
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 capped	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 white	punct
36	capped	cap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 waves	amod
37	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 merrily	obl
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 going	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 going	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 going	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 going	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 going	aux
43	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 drove	advcl
44	on	on	ADP	_	48 errand	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 errand	det
46	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	47 delightful	advmod
47	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 errand	amod
48	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 going	obl
49	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 going	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	mariners = mariner			out property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past		a stiff breeze	the north west; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breeze=Theme
3	drive	past		mariners = mariner		along, merrily property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory
4	cap	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	go	past · perfect · progressive	mariners = mariner		the delightful errand	imaginable property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location

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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