Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 45

When they were bidding him farewell Cilix burst into tears, and told his mother that it seemed just as melancholy a dream to stay there, in solitude, as to go onward.

Who acts: mother, Cilix, it · What happens: bid, farewell, burst, tell, seem, stay · To what, where: tears, mother, melancholy, solitude · 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 (mother, Cilix, it), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bidding	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bidding	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bidding	aux
4	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 farewell	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 farewell	nsubj
6	farewell	farewell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 burst	nsubj
8	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 farewell	ccomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 tears	case
10	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burst	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 farewell	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 seemed	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	ccomp
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 melancholy	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 melancholy	case
21	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dream	det
23	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stay	mark
25	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dream	acl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 stay	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 solitude	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 solitude	case
29	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 go	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 go	mark
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 told	ccomp
34	onward	onward	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 farewell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past · progressive	mother					tree rules
2	farewell	past	Cilix					tree rules
3	burst	past	Cilix			tears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Cilix not said here		Cilix's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
5	seem	past	it	melancholy		solitude		tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go not said to happen	to-infinitive					onward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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