Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 84

They spent most of their time in dancing, unless when the sidelong breeze made the deck slope too much.

Who acts: youths, sidelong breeze · What happens: spend, make · To what, where: most, dancing, deck slope

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths, sidelong breeze), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 spent	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 most	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 dancing	case
8	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 breeze	det
13	sidelong	sidelong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 breeze	amod
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 slope	det
17	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slope	compound
18	slope	slope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	youths = youth	most of youths's time		dancing			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset
2	make a condition, not said to happen	past	the sidelong breeze	the deck slope					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slope=Product

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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