Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 18
But her brothers were too far off to hear; especially as the fright took away Europa's voice, and hindered her from calling very loudly.
Who acts: brothers, fright · What happens: hear, take away, hinder, call · To what, where: voice, fright · 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 (brothers, fright), 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 | _ | 9 hear | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | aux |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 hear | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hear | mark |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 took | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fright | det |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Europa | case |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hindered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hindered | cc |
| 22 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hindered | obj |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 25 calling | mark |
| 25 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 hindered | advcl |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 loudly | advmod |
| 27 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 25 calling | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Cilix's brothers | off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take away | past | the fright | Europa's voice | especially property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||
| 3 | hinder | past | the fright not said here | fright | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | the fright not said here | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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