Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 1

Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, the three sons of King Agenor, and their little sister Europa (who was a very beautiful child), were at play together near the seashore in their father's kingdom of Phoenicia.

Who acts: Europa, little sister · What happens: be · To what, where: beautiful child, play

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Europa, little sister), 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	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Phoenix	punct
3	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cadmus	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cilix	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Cilix	cc
6	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cadmus	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sons	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sons	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sons	nummod
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Agenor	case
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Agenor	compound
13	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sons	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 play	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 play	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sister	amod
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 play	nsubj
19	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sister	appos
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 child	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 child	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 child	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 child	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 child	amod
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Europa	appos
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 child	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sister	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 play	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 play	case
31	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sons	conj
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 play	advmod
33	near	near	ADP	_	35 seashore	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 seashore	det
35	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 play	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 kingdom	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kingdom	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 father	case
40	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seashore	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 Phoenicia	case
42	Phoenicia	Phoenicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 kingdom	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sons	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Europa	a beautiful child					tree rules
2	is	past	Cadmus's little sister			play		near the seashore in Cadmus's father's kingdom of Phoenicia; together property	tree rules

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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