Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 56

But, though the gray years thrust themselves between, and made the child's figure dim in their remembrance, neither of these true-hearted three ever dreamed of giving up the search.

Who acts: years thrust, child, bulls · What happens: make, dream, give up, figure, remember · To what, where: figure, search

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 (years thrust, child, bulls), 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	_	12 made	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thrust	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 thrust	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 years	det
5	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 years	compound
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrust	compound
7	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	nsubj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 between	nsubj
9	between	between	ADP	_	7 thrust	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 figure	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 child	case
16	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
17	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 remembrance	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 remembrance	nmod:poss
20	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dim	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 three	punct
22	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	28 three	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 three	case
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 three	nsubj
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hearted	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 true	punct
27	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 three	amod
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 made	obl
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 dreamed	advmod
30	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 three	acl
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 giving	mark
32	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 dreamed	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 giving	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 search	det
35	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 giving	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	years thrust	the child's figure		of hearted three; dim property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product
2	dream	participle			ever		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	give up	gerund		the search			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source
4	figure		the child				nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	remember		bulls = bull				nom remembrance «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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