Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 26

But often and often, at the close of a weary day's journey, did Telephassa and Cadmus, Cilix, and Thasus, remember the pleasant spot in which they had left Phoenix.

Who acts: close, Thasus, mother, weary day · What happens: do, remember, leave, journey · To what, where: Telephassa, pleasant spot, Phoenix

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 (close, Thasus, mother, weary day), 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	_	16 did	cc
2	often	often	ADV	_	4 often	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 often	cc
4	often	often	ADV	_	16 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 close	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 close	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 close	det
8	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 journey	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 journey	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 day	case
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 close	punct
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	advcl
17	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 did	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Cadmus	cc
19	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Telephassa	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Cilix	punct
21	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Telephassa	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remember	cc
24	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 remember	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Thasus	punct
26	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 spot	det
28	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 spot	amod
29	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remember	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 left	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 spot	acl:relcl
35	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 left	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the close of a weary day's journey	Telephassa and Cadmus and Cilix		often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephassa=Eventuality
2	remember	infinitive	Thasus	the pleasant spot			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect	mother	Phoenix	the pleasant spot		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent phoenix=Theme in which=Location
4	journey		a weary day				nom journey «act 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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