Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 27

It was a sorrowful prospect for these wanderers, that on the morrow they must again set forth, and that, after many nightfalls, they would perhaps be no nearer the close of their toilsome pilgrimage than now.

Who acts: close, mother, that · What happens: be, set, not be, close · To what, where: sorrowful prospect, morrow

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, mother, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prospect	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prospect	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prospect	det
4	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prospect	amod
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wanderers	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 wanderers	det
8	wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prospect	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wanderers	appos
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 morrow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morrow	det
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux
16	again	again	ADV	_	17 set	advmod
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 morrow	acl:relcl
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	17 set	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 close	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 close	cc
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 close	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 nightfalls	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nightfalls	amod
25	nightfalls	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 that	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 close	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 close	aux
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 nearer	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 nearer	cop
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 nearer	advmod
32	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 close	amod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 close	det
34	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prospect	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 pilgrimage	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
37	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pilgrimage	amod
38	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 close	nmod
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 now	case
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 pilgrimage	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prospect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	close	a sorrowful prospect and the nearer close		for this wanderers	tree rules
2	set	must	mother	the morrow not said here	again	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient morrow=Result
3	not is	infinitive				near, perhaps property	tree rules
4	close	would	that			of mother's toilsome pilgrimage	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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