Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 15
But, before setting out, they all helped Phoenix to build a habitation.
Who acts: Cadmus, Phoenix · What happens: set out, help, build · To what, where: Phoenix, habitation
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 (Cadmus, Phoenix), 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 | _ | 9 helped | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 setting | mark |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 helped | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 setting | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 they | det |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 helped | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 build | mark |
| 12 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helped | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 habitation | det |
| 14 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 build | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | gerund | Cadmus not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | past | Cadmus | Phoenix | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent phoenix=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | Phoenix not said here | a habitation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset habitation=Product |
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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