Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 101

I cannot tell you how long Queen Telephassa, and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, her three sons, and Thasus, their playfellow, went wandering along the highways and bypaths, or through the pathless wildernesses of the earth, in this manner.

Who acts: I, Cadmus · What happens: not tell, go, wonder · To what, where: you, pathless wildernesses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Cadmus), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 tell	advmod
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Telephassa	nmod:desc
9	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 long	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
12	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Phoenix	punct
14	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cadmus	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Cilix	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Cilix	cc
17	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Cadmus	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sons	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sons	nmod:poss
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sons	nummod
21	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Cadmus	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
24	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 playfellow	punct
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 playfellow	nmod:poss
27	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Thasus	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Thasus	punct
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
30	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 went	xcomp
31	along	along	ADP	_	33 highways	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 highways	det
33	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wandering	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bypaths	cc
35	bypaths	bypath	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 highways	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wildernesses	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 wildernesses	cc
38	through	through	ADP	_	41 wildernesses	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wildernesses	det
40	pathless	pathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wildernesses	amod
41	wildernesses	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 earth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 earth	det
44	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wildernesses	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 manner	punct
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 manner	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 manner	det
48	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I	you		long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	go	past	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix and Telephassa's three sons		the pathless wildernesses of the earth	in this manner	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix and Telephassa's three sons not said here			along the highways and bypaths	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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