Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 111
If payment was offered, they shook their heads, and only asked for tidings of Europa.
Who acts: threads · What happens: offer, shake, ask · To what, where: payment, heads
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 (threads), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 offered | mark |
| 2 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | aux:pass |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shook | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 tidings | case |
| 15 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Europa | case |
| 17 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tidings | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | payment | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shake | past | threads = thread | threads's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | threads = thread not said here | for tidings of Europa | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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