Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 69

Before setting out, Cadmus helped Thasus build a bower; while Telephassa, being too infirm to give any great assistance, advised them how to fit it up and furnish it, so that it might be as comfortable as a hut of branches could.

Who acts: Cadmus, Thasus, Telephassa, assistance · What happens: set out, help, build, be, give, advise · To what, where: bower, great assistance, Cadmus, assistance · 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 (Cadmus, Thasus, Telephassa, assistance), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 setting	mark
2	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 helped	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 setting	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 setting	punct
5	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 build	nsubj
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helped	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bower	det
10	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 advised	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 advised	mark
13	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 advised	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 infirm	punct
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 infirm	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 infirm	advmod
17	infirm	infirm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Telephassa	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 infirm	xcomp
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 assistance	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 assistance	amod
22	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Telephassa	punct
24	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 helped	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 advised	obj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 fit	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fit	mark
28	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 advised	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fit	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 fit	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 furnish	cc
32	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fit	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 furnish	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 comfortable	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 comfortable	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 comfortable	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 comfortable	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 comfortable	cop
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 comfortable	advmod
41	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 advised	conj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 could	mark
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hut	det
44	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 could	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 branches	case
46	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hut	nmod
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 comfortable	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set out	gerund	Cadmus not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	past	Cadmus			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	build	infinitive	Thasus	a bower		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bower=Product
4	is	gerund	Telephassa not said here		infirm property	tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	Telephassa not said here	any great assistance		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme
6	advise speech: other	past	Telephassa	Cadmus		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	fit up not said to happen	to-infinitive		assistance		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	furnish	infinitive		assistance		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
9	is	might	assistance		comfortable property	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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