Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 47
But Telephassa bade him remain there, and be happy, if his own heart would let him.
Who acts: own heart · What happens: remain, be, let · To what, where: Telephassa bade, Cilix
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 (own heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 remain | cc |
| 2 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | compound |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | obl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remain | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happy | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | cop |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remain | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 let | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | Telephassa bade | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let a condition, not said to happen | would | Cilix's own heart | Cilix | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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