Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 48
So the pilgrims took their leave of him, and departed, and were hardly out of sight before some other wandering people came along that way, and saw Cilix's habitation, and were greatly delighted with the appearance of the place.
Who acts: pilgrims, other wandering people · What happens: take, depart, be, wonder, come, see · To what, where: leave, sight, way, habitation
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 (pilgrims, other wandering people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pilgrims | det |
| 3 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 departed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 departed | cc |
| 11 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sight | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sight | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | cop |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 18 sight | advmod |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 people | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 22 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 31 | Cilix | Cilix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 habitation | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Cilix | case |
| 33 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 delighted | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 delighted | cc |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 delighted | cop |
| 37 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 38 delighted | advmod |
| 38 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 saw | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 appearance | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 appearance | det |
| 41 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 delighted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 place | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 place | det |
| 44 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 appearance | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the pilgrims | pilgrims's leave of Cilix | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the pilgrims not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sight | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | some other wandering people | that way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along way=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Cilix's habitation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habitation=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | past | with the appearance of the place; delighted, greatly property | 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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