Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 43
And the faithful Thasus, too, was resolved to bear them company.
What happens: resolve, bear · To what, where: faithful Thasus, mother
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 resolved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thasus | det |
| 3 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Thasus | amod |
| 4 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thasus | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 Thasus | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thasus | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 resolved | aux:pass |
| 9 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bear | mark |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 resolved | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | obj |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bear | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past · passive | the faithful Thasus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | mother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary company=Patient |
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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