Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 81
Thasus was the son of a seafaring person in the neighborhood; he had been brought up with the young princes, and was their intimate friend, and loved Europa very much; so they consented that he should accompany them.
Who acts: Thasus, intimate friend, friends · What happens: be, bring up, love, consent, accompany · To what, where: son, Thasus, intimate friend, Europa, friends
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 (Thasus, intimate friend, friends), 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 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | seafaring | seafaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 person | compound |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 neighborhood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighborhood | det |
| 11 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 person | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 brought | aux:pass |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 brought | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 princes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princes | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 princes | amod |
| 21 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 friend | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 friend | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 friend | cop |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 friend | amod |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 loved | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 loved | cc |
| 30 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 friend | acl:relcl |
| 31 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 loved | obj |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 loved | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 consented | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 consented | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 consented | nsubj |
| 37 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | conj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 accompany | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 accompany | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 accompany | aux |
| 41 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 consented | ccomp |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 accompany | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Thasus | the son | of a seafaring person in the neighborhood | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | Thasus | with the young princes | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with prince=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | princes's intimate friend | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | love | past | princes's intimate friend not said here | Europa | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer europa=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | consent | past | friends = friend | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | accompany | should | Thasus | friends = friend | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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