Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 44

They remained with Cilix a few days, however, and helped him to build a rustic bower, resembling the one which they had formerly built for Phoenix.

Who acts: mother, Cilix · What happens: remain, help, build, resemble · To what, where: Cilix, rustic bower, one

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 (mother, Cilix), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Cilix	case
4	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 days	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remained	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	2 remained	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 helped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 helped	cc
12	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 helped	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 build	mark
15	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 helped	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bower	det
17	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bower	amod
18	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 build	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 resembling	punct
20	resembling	resemble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 build	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 resembling	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 built	nsubj:pass
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 built	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 built	aux
26	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	27 built	advmod
27	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 one	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 Phoenix	case
29	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 built	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	mother		day	with Cilix; however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	past	mother not said here	Cilix			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	build	to-infinitive	Cilix not said here	a rustic bower			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bower=Product
4	resemble	gerund	Cilix not said here	the one			tree rules
5	build	past · perfect · passive		the one		for Phoenix; formerly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for phoenix=Beneficiary

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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