Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 97

Here, and there, and everywhere, they made continual inquiry if any person could tell them what had become of Europa.

Who acts: companions, person · What happens: make, tell, become · To what, where: continual inquiry, companions · 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 (companions, person), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 there	cc
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 made	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	parataxis
11	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 inquiry	amod
12	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 become	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tell	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Europa	case
23	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 become	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	companions = companion	continual inquiry		everywhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	any person		companions = companion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	become	past · perfect				of Europa	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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