Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 70

Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and told him how that a white bull had carried off their sister, and swam with her over the sea, the king was quite beside himself with grief and rage.

Who acts: Cadmus, king · What happens: come, cry, tell, carry off, swim, be · To what, where: king, white bull, sea · 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 (Cadmus, king), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
4	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brothers	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Cadmus	conj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 crying	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 carried	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 carried	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bull	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bull	amod
20	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 told	ccomp
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 sister	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swam	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swam	cc
28	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 swam	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 himself	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 himself	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 himself	cop
38	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 himself	advmod
39	beside	beside	ADP	_	40 himself	case
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 swam	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 grief	case
42	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swam	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rage	cc
44	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 grief	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Cadmus and king's two brothers				therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund	Cadmus and king's two brothers not said here				home property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Cadmus and king's two brothers not said here		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	carry off	past · perfect · passive		a white bull			off Cadmus's sister	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sister=Value
5	swim	past	Cadmus and king's two brothers not said here			the sea	with sister; with grief and rage	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory
6	is	past	the king				beside king	tree rules

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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