Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 46

If she really believed that they would ever find Europa, he was willing to continue the search with them, even now.

Who acts: Thasus, mother, Cilix · What happens: believe, find, be, continue · To what, where: Europa, search · 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 (Thasus, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 believed	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 believed	advmod
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 willing	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 find	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 believed	ccomp
10	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 willing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 willing	cop
14	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 continue	mark
16	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 willing	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 search	det
18	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 continue	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 continue	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 now	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 now	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 continue	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	Thasus				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	would	mother	Europa	ever		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europa=Topic
3	is	past	Cilix			willing property	tree rules
4	continue	to-infinitive	Cilix not said here	the search	now	with mother	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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