Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 84
In this manner they went down the palace steps, and began a journey, which turned out to be a great deal longer than they dreamed of.
Who acts: Cadmus, journey · What happens: go down, begin, turn out, be, dream · To what, where: palace steps, journey, great deal
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, journey), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 steps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steps | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steps | compound |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 journey | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 turned | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 deal | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 deal | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deal | amod |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | xcomp |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 dreamed | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 27 dreamed | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dreamed | nsubj |
| 27 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 deal | advcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dreamed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Cadmus | the palace steps | in this manner | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent in manner=Attribute | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Cadmus not said here | a journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | turn out | past | a journey | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a journey not said here | a great deal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dream | past | Cadmus | long property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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