Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 71
Although it was now twilight, and fast growing dark, he bade them set out instantly in search of her.
Who acts: rage, king · What happens: be, grow, bade, set out, search · To what, where: Cadmus, search, sister
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 (rage, 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 twilight | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 twilight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twilight | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 twilight | advmod |
| 5 | twilight | twilight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 twilight | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fast | cc |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 twilight | conj |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fast | xcomp |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 growing | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bade | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bade | nsubj |
| 13 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twilight | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bade | obj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bade | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 search | case |
| 19 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 search | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 twilight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rage | now | twilight property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | rage not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | rage not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bade | past | king | Cadmus | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set out | participle | search of sister | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | search | sister | nom search «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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