Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 52

It is, therefore, plain to my mind, that Cilix secretly blamed himself for giving up the search for Europa, as long as he was able to put one foot before the other.

Who acts: One, Cilix, my · What happens: be, blame, give up, put, mind · To what, where: Cilix, search, one foot, other

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 (One, Cilix, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 plain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 plain	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mind	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plain	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blamed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 blamed	mark
12	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 blamed	nsubj
13	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	14 blamed	advmod
14	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 plain	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 blamed	obj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 giving	mark
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 blamed	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 giving	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 search	det
20	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 Europa	case
22	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 able	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 giving	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 put	mark
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 foot	nummod
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 other	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 other	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 put	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	One			to my mind; plain, therefore property	tree rules
2	blame	past	Cilix	Cilix		secretly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	give up	gerund	Cilix not said here	the search		for Europa	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source
4	is	past	Cilix			able, long property	tree rules
5	put	to-infinitive	Cilix not said here	one foot	the other		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme before other=Destination
6	mind		my				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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