Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 94

But so long a time went by, that, at last, if they had really come, the king would not have known that this was the voice of Telephassa, and these the younger voices that used to make such joyful echoes, when the children were playing about the palace.

Who acts: time, brothers, this, these, younger voices, children · What happens: go by, come, not know, be, voice, use · To what, where: king, voice, such joyful echoes

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 (time, brothers, this, these), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 went	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 last	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 known	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 known	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 known	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 known	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 known	aux
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 come	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 voice	mark
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 voice	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 voice	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 voice	det
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 known	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Telephassa	case
32	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 voice	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 voices	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 voices	cc
35	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 voices	nsubj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 voices	det
37	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 voices	amod
38	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 used	nsubj
40	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 voices	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 used	xcomp
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 echoes	amod
44	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 echoes	amod
45	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 make	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 playing	punct
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 playing	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 children	det
49	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 playing	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 playing	aux
51	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 echoes	acl
52	about	about	ADP	_	54 palace	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 palace	det
54	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 playing	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go by	past	a time		long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	brothers = brother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	would · perfect · passive		the king		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	is a	past	this	the voice	of Telephassa	tree rules
5	voice speech: other		these			tree rules
6	use	past	the younger voices			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	make	to-infinitive	the younger voices not said here	such joyful echoes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset echo=Product
8	play	past · progressive	the children		about the palace	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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