Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 100
But Telephassa reasoned with him, and kissed him, and at length made him discern that it was better for her spirit to pass away out of the toil, the weariness, and grief, and disappointment which had burdened her on earth, ever since the child was lost.
Who acts: Telephassa, rest, spirit · What happens: reason, kiss, make, discern, be, pass away · To what, where: grief, rest, length, toil, disappointment, earth
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Telephassa, rest, spirit), 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 | _ | 3 reasoned | cc |
| 2 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reasoned | nsubj |
| 3 | reasoned | reason | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reasoned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reasoned | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reasoned | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | discern | discern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 better | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 better | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 discern | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pass | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 better | advcl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 pass | advmod |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 toil | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 toil | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 toil | det |
| 30 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pass | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 weariness | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 weariness | det |
| 33 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 toil | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grief | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 grief | cc |
| 36 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reasoned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 burdened | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 burdened | cc |
| 39 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 burdened | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 burdened | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 burdened | aux |
| 42 | burdened | burden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reasoned | conj |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 burdened | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 earth | case |
| 45 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 burdened | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 lost | punct |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 52 lost | advmod |
| 48 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 52 lost | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 child | det |
| 50 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 lost | aux:pass |
| 52 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 burdened | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reasoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reason | past | Telephassa | grief | with rest | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | Telephassa not said here | rest | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Telephassa not said here | rest | length | tree rules | |||
| 4 | discern | infinitive | rest not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | rest not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pass away | to-infinitive | Telephassa's spirit | the toil and the weariness | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | burden | past · perfect · passive | disappointment | earth | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lose | past · passive | the child | ever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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