Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 83

Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, and Thasus clustered round Queen Telephassa, grasping her skirts, and begging her to lean upon their shoulders whenever she felt weary.

Who acts: Cadmus, queen · What happens: cluster, grasp, beg, lean, feel · To what, where: skirts, queen, shoulders

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, queen), 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	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clustered	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Phoenix	punct
3	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cadmus	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cilix	punct
5	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cadmus	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clustered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clustered	cc
8	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clustered	nsubj
9	clustered	cluster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 Queen	case
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clustered	obl
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grasping	punct
14	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 clustered	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 skirts	nmod:poss
16	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grasping	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begging	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begging	cc
19	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 grasping	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begging	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 lean	mark
22	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begging	xcomp
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 shoulders	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulders	nmod:poss
25	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lean	obl
26	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lean	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 felt	nsubj
28	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whenever	advcl:relcl
29	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 felt	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 clustered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cluster	past	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix				round Queen	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	grasp	gerund	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix not said here	queen's skirts				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skirt=Stimulus
3	beg speech: request	gerund	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix not said here		queen			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lean not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix not said here			Cadmus's shoulders	whenever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location
5	feel	past	queen				weary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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