Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 54

The two young men did their best for the poor queen, helping her over the rough places, often carrying her across rivulets in their faithful arms and seeking to shelter her at nightfall, even when they themselves lay on the ground.

Who acts: two young men, Cadmus · What happens: do, help, carry, seek, shelter, lay · To what, where: best, queen, rough places, rivulets, nightfall, ground

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 (two young men, Cadmus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 best	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 did	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 queen	amod
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helping	punct
13	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helping	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 places	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 places	det
17	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 places	amod
18	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 helping	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carrying	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 carrying	advmod
21	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 helping	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carrying	obj
23	across	across	ADP	_	24 rivulets	case
24	rivulets	rivulet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carrying	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 arms	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
27	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 arms	amod
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carrying	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 seeking	cc
30	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 carrying	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 shelter	mark
32	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 seeking	xcomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 shelter	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 nightfall	case
35	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shelter	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lay	punct
37	even	even	ADV	_	41 lay	advmod
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 lay	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lay	nsubj
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	39 they	nmod:unmarked
41	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the two young men	Cadmus's best			for the poor queen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	help	gerund	the two young men not said here		queen	the rough places		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	carry	gerund	the two young men not said here	queen		rivulets	in Cadmus's faithful arms; often property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
4	seek	gerund	the two young men not said here					tree rules
5	shelter not said to happen	to-infinitive	the two young men not said here	queen		nightfall		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient at nightfall=Location
6	lay	present	Cadmus			the ground		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination

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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