Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 47
She came a step nearer to him therefore; and--sociable creature that he was--he showed so much joy at this mark of her confidence, that the child could not find in her heart to hesitate any longer.
Who acts: child, sociable creature · What happens: come, be, not find, hesitate, mark, confide · To what, where: step, mark, heart, confidence
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 (child, sociable creature), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 step | det |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 step | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nearer | obl |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 showed | cc |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 creature | punct |
| 12 | sociable | sociable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 showed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 showed | cop |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 showed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 19 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 joy | amod |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 showed | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 mark | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 mark | det |
| 25 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 showed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 confidence | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 28 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mark | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 child | det |
| 32 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 find | advmod |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 showed | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 hesitate | mark |
| 40 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 find | advcl |
| 41 | any | any | ADV | _ | 42 longer | advmod |
| 42 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 hesitate | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | child | a step | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | sociable creature | this mark of child's confidence | show property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not find | could | the child | child's heart | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hesitate | to-infinitive | the child not said here | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mark | child's confidence | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | confide | child | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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