Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 57

One morning, however, poor Thasus found that he had sprained his ankle, and could not possibly go a step farther.

Who acts: poor Thasus, thrust · What happens: find, sprain, not go · To what, where: ankle, step · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor Thasus, thrust), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Thasus	amod
7	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 sprained	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sprained	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sprained	aux
12	sprained	sprain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 found	ccomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ankle	nmod:poss
14	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprained	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 go	advmod
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 step	det
22	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obj
23	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 go	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	poor Thasus		morning	however property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sprain	past · perfect	thrust	thrust's ankle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=Patient
3	not go	could	poor Thasus not said here	a step		far, possibly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme

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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