Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 88

In the joy of their success, however, and amidst the sports, dancing, and other merriment, with which these young folks wore away the time, they never once thought whether their sails were black, white, or rainbow colored, and, indeed, left it entirely to the mariners whether they had any sails at all.

Who acts: young folks, sails, folks · What happens: wear away, not think, be, color, leave, have · To what, where: folks, sail, mariners, sails, all, success · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young folks, sails, folks), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 joy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joy	det
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dancing	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 success	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 success	nmod:poss
6	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joy	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 joy	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	15 dancing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dancing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dancing	cc
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	13 sports	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sports	det
13	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dancing	compound
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sports	punct
15	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 merriment	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 merriment	cc
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 merriment	amod
19	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dancing	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wore	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wore	obl
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 folks	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 folks	amod
25	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wore	nsubj
26	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dancing	parataxis
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 wore	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wore	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj:pass
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 thought	advmod
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 thought	advmod
34	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wore	conj
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 black	mark
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sails	nmod:poss
37	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 black	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 black	cop
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thought	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 white	punct
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 black	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 colored	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 colored	cc
44	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 colored	compound
45	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thought	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 left	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 left	cc
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 and	punct
49	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	51 left	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 indeed	punct
51	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 thought	parataxis
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 left	obj
53	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	51 left	advmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 mariners	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 mariners	det
56	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 left	obl
57	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	59 had	mark
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 had	nsubj
59	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 left	advcl
60	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	61 sails	det
61	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 had	obj
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 all	case
63	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 had	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear away	past	this young folks				time	with sports dancing and other merriment; away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	not think speech: other	participle · passive		folks = folk				once property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	folks's sails					black property	tree rules
4	be		folks's sails not said here						tree rules
5	color	participle							vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	leave	past		sail	the mariners			entirely, indeed property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mariner=Recipient
7	have	past	folks = folk	any sails		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient
8	joy			youths's success					nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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