Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 10

They were neatly plastered together by the Pygmy workmen, pretty much like birds' nests, out of straw, feathers, egg shells, and other small bits of stuff, with stiff clay instead of mortar; and when the hot sun had dried them, they were just as snug and comfortable as a Pygmy could desire.

Who acts: Pygmy workmen, structures, Pygmy · What happens: plaster, dry, be, desire · To what, where: structures, straw, hot sun

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pygmy workmen, structures, Pygmy), 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	4 plastered	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plastered	aux:pass
3	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	4 plastered	advmod
4	plastered	plaster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 plastered	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 workmen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 workmen	det
8	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 workmen	amod
9	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plastered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nests	punct
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	16 nests	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 nests	case
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 nests	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 birds	case
16	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 workmen	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 straw	punct
18	out	out	ADP	_	20 straw	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 straw	case
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plastered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 feathers	punct
22	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 straw	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 shells	punct
24	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shells	compound
25	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 straw	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bits	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bits	cc
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bits	amod
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bits	amod
30	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plastered	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 stuff	case
32	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bits	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clay	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 clay	case
35	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 clay	amod
36	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bits	conj
37	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	39 mortar	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	37 instead	fixed
39	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 clay	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 dried	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dried	cc
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 dried	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun	det
44	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sun	amod
45	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dried	nsubj:pass
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dried	aux
47	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plastered	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 dried	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 snug	punct
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 snug	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 snug	cop
52	just	just	ADV	_	54 snug	advmod
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 snug	advmod
54	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plastered	parataxis
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 comfortable	cc
56	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 snug	conj
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 desire	mark
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 Pygmy	det
59	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 desire	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 desire	aux
61	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 comfortable	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plastered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plaster	past · passive	the Pygmy workmen and birds's nests	structures = structure	straw and feathers and egg shells	other small bits of stuff and stiff clay instead mortar obl; neatly, together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme out straw=Destination
2	dry	past · perfect · passive		the hot sun			tree rules
3	is	past	structures = structure			snug property	tree rules
4	be		structures = structure not said here				tree rules
5	desire	could	a Pygmy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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