Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 16

A whole family of them might have been put to bed in a shoe, or have crept into an old glove, and played at hide-and-seek in its thumb and fingers.

What happens: put, creep, play, seek · To what, where: whole family, shoe, old glove, hide, thumb

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 family	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 family	amod
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 family	nmod
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 shoe	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shoe	det
14	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crept	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 crept	cc
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 crept	aux
18	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 put	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 glove	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 glove	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 glove	amod
22	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 played	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 played	cc
25	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 hide	case
27	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 played	obl
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 seek	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seek	cc
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hide	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 thumb	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 thumb	nmod:poss
34	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seek	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fingers	cc
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 thumb	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	might · perfect · passive	a whole family of stars	a shoe	to bed	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shoe=Destination
2	creep	present · perfect		a old glove		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into glove=Destination
3	play	past		hide		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seek	infinitive		family's thumb and fingers		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in thumb=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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