Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 53
As for Telephassa, and Cadmus, and the good Thasus, it grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage.
Who acts: One, that · What happens: grieve, think, keep up, pilgrimage · To what, where: me
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, that), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 Telephassa | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 Telephassa | case |
| 3 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cadmus | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Cadmus | cc |
| 6 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Telephassa | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Thasus | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Thasus | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Thasus | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Thasus | amod |
| 11 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Telephassa | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grieves | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grieves | nsubj |
| 14 | grieves | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Thasus | acl:relcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grieves | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grieves | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 think | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 keeping | punct |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 keeping | advmod |
| 22 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 think | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 keeping | compound:prt |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pilgrimage | nsubj |
| 25 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pilgrimage | amod |
| 26 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeping | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Thasus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | present | One | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | One not said here | of Cadmus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep up | gerund | One not said here | still | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pilgrimage | that | 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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