Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 85

The last that they saw of King Agenor, he came to the door, with a servant holding a torch beside him, and called after them into the gathering darkness:

Who acts: Cadmus, Agenor, servant · What happens: see, come, hold, call · To what, where: door, torch, gathering darkness · 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, Agenor, servant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 last	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Agenor	case
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Agenor	compound
8	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 servant	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 servant	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 servant	det
18	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
19	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 servant	acl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 torch	det
21	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obj
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 holding	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 came	advcl
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 darkness	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 darkness	det
31	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 darkness	compound
32	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Cadmus				of King Agenor	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	Agenor		the door		with a servant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	hold	gerund	a servant not said here	a torch			beside Agenor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme beside he=Location
4	call	participle	Agenor not said here		the gathering darkness	after Cadmus		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into darkness=Recipient

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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