Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 68
This was a mournful story, as you may well think, for the three boys to carry home to their parents.
Who acts: This, you, three boys · What happens: be, think, carry · To what, where: mournful story, parents · 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 (This, you, three boys), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 story | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boys | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 boys | nummod |
| 16 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 think | ccomp |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 carry | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 parents | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 parents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carry | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a mournful story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | may | you | well property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | the three boys | boys's parents | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to parent=Destination |
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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