Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 23
For the inhabitants of the new city, finding that he had royal blood in his veins, had chosen him to be their king.
Who acts: inhabitants, city · What happens: find, have, choose, be · To what, where: royal blood, veins, inhabitants, king · 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 (inhabitants, city), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 inhabitants | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inhabitants | det |
| 3 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inhabitants | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 finding | punct |
| 9 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 inhabitants | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 finding | ccomp |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blood | amod |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 veins | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 veins | nmod:poss |
| 17 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blood | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 inhabitants | punct |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 chosen | aux |
| 20 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 chosen | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 king | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 king | cop |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 king | nmod:poss |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chosen | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the inhabitants of the new city not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | city | royal blood | city's veins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | |||
| 3 | choose | past · perfect · passive | the inhabitants of the new city | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | inhabitants's king | 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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