Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 70
Thasus, however, did not spend all his days in this green bower.
What happens: not spend · To what, where: green bower
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: 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 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spend | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thasus | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 spend | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spend | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 spend | advmod |
| 7 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 days | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 days | nmod:poss |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spend | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bower | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bower | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bower | amod |
| 14 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spend | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend | past · do-support | this green bower | day | Thasus vocative; however property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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