Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 95
We must now leave King Agenor to sit on his throne, and must go along with Queen Telephassa, and her four youthful companions.
Who acts: We · What happens: leave, sit, go along · To what, where: King, four youthful companions, throne
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | Agenor | Agenor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | flat |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 throne | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 throne | nmod:poss |
| 11 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sit | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Queen | case |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Queen | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 companions | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 companions | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 companions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 companions | nummod |
| 24 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 companions | amod |
| 25 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sit | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | We | King | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | We not said here | queen's four youthful companions | king's throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | |||
| 3 | go along | must | We not said here | with Queen; along property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with queen=Beneficiary |
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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