Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 5

Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the meadow; and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix set off in pursuit of it, crying out that it was a flower with wings.

Who acts: splendid butterfly, Cilix, butterfly · What happens: come, flutter, set off, cry out, be, pursue · To what, where: Cadmus, meadow, pursuit, flower, butterfly · 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 (splendid butterfly, Cilix, butterfly), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 came	expl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 butterfly	det
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 butterfly	amod
8	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fluttering	punct
10	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 meadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fluttering	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Cadmus	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Cadmus	cc
16	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Phoenix	punct
18	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Cadmus	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
21	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 set	nsubj
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 set	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 pursuit	case
25	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pursuit	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 set	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 crying	compound:prt
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 flower	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 flower	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 flower	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 flower	det
35	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crying	ccomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 wings	case
37	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flower	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a splendid butterfly	Cadmus	there	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flutter	gerund	a splendid butterfly not said here		the meadow			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along meadow=Location
3	set off	past	Cilix		pursuit of butterfly			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	gerund	Cilix not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	butterfly	a flower			with wings	tree rules
6	pursue			butterfly				nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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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