Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 102

But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, their splendid garments were quite worn out.

Who acts: manner, Cadmus · What happens: be, reach, wear out · To what, where: place, splendid garments

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 (manner, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 certain	cc
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 certain	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 certain	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 certain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reached	nsubj
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 certain	parataxis
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rest	case
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worn	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 garments	nmod:poss
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 garments	amod
18	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 worn	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worn	aux:pass
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 worn	advmod
21	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 reached	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 worn	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	manner		that obl; certain property	tree rules
2	reach	past	Cadmus	any place of rest		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	wear out	past · passive		Cadmus's splendid garments		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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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