Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 101
He therefore repressed his sorrow, and listened to her last words.
Who acts: child, Telephassa · What happens: repress, listen, sorrow, word · To what, where: sorrow
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 (child, Telephassa), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repressed | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 repressed | advmod |
| 3 | repressed | repress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repressed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 listened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 listened | cc |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repressed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 listened | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repress | past | child | child's sorrow | therefore property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | |||
| 2 | listen | past | child not said here | to Telephassa's last words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sorrow | child | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | word | Telephassa | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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