Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 18

So comfortable and home-like did it seem, that Telephassa and her three companions could not help sighing, to think that they must still roam about the world, instead of spending the remainder of their lives in some such cheerful abode as they had here built for Phoenix.

Who acts: it, Telephassa, rooms · What happens: seem, not help, sigh, think, roam, spend · To what, where: remainder, such cheerful abode, rooms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (it, Telephassa, rooms), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 comfortable	advmod
2	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seem	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 home	cc
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comfortable	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	4 home	discourse
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seem	aux
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seem	nsubj
9	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 help	mark
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 help	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 companions	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 companions	nmod:poss
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 companions	nummod
16	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Telephassa	conj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 help	advmod
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seem	parataxis
20	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 help	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 think	mark
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 roam	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 roam	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 roam	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 roam	advmod
28	roam	roam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 think	ccomp
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roam	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spending	punct
33	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 spending	mark
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 instead	fixed
35	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 roam	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 remainder	det
37	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spending	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 lives	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lives	nmod:poss
40	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 remainder	nmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 abode	case
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 abode	det
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 abode	amod
44	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 abode	amod
45	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spending	obl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 built	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 built	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 built	aux
49	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 built	advmod
50	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 spending	advcl
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 Phoenix	case
52	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 built	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past · do-support	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	not help	could	Telephassa and Telephassa's three companions					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sigh not said to happen	gerund	Telephassa and Telephassa's three companions not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Telephassa and Telephassa's three companions not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	roam	must	rooms = room			still	about the world	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
6	spend	gerund	rooms = room not said here	the remainder of rooms's lives	some such cheerful abode			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remainder=Asset
7	build	past · perfect · passive		rooms = room	here		for Phoenix	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for phoenix=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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