Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 11

"Brother Cadmus!" cried Europa, starting up out of the midst of the roses and lilies. "

Who acts: Brother Cadmus · What happens: cry, start up · To what, where: Europa, midst

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 (Brother 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Cadmus	punct
2	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cadmus	compound
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Cadmus	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Cadmus	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 starting	punct
9	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 starting	compound:prt
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 midst	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 midst	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 midst	det
14	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 roses	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roses	det
17	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 midst	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lilies	cc
19	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 roses	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Brother Cadmus	Europa					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europa=Topic
2	start up	gerund	Brother Cadmus not said here			the midst of the roses and lilies			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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