Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 19
But, when they bade him farewell, Phoenix shed tears, and probably regretted that he was no longer to keep them company.
Who acts: rooms, Phoenix · What happens: bade, shed, regret, be · To what, where: Phoenix, tears
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 (rooms, 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 | _ | 10 shed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bade | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shed | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 5 bade | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bade | punct |
| 9 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shed | nsubj |
| 10 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 regretted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 regretted | cc |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 15 regretted | advmod |
| 15 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shed | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | cop |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 keep | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 regretted | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keep | obj |
| 24 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | rooms = room | Phoenix | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shed | past | Phoenix | tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 3 | regret | past | Phoenix not said here | probably property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Phoenix | keep, long property | tree rules |
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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