Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 75
Then, grasping the pilgrim's staff that had supported him so long, he set forth again, hoping still to discover some hoof-mark of the snow-white bull, some trace of the vanished child.
Who acts: king · What happens: grasp, support, set, hope, discover, vanish · To what, where: staff, trace, hoof mark, white bull
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 (king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grasping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasping | punct |
| 3 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 supported | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pilgrim | det |
| 5 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staff | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 pilgrim | case |
| 7 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 supported | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 supported | aux |
| 10 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 supported | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 supported | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 supported | parataxis |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoping | punct |
| 20 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 set | advcl |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 hoping | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 discover | mark |
| 23 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hoping | xcomp |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 mark | det |
| 25 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mark | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 hoof | punct |
| 27 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 discover | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bull | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bull | det |
| 30 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 white | obl |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 snow | punct |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bull | amod |
| 33 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mark | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 trace | punct |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 trace | det |
| 36 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hoping | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 child | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 child | det |
| 39 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 child | amod |
| 40 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trace | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | gerund | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | support | past · perfect · passive | the pilgrim's staff | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | past | king | again | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | hope | gerund | king not said here | some trace of the vanished child | still | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 5 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | some hoof mark of the white bull | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic | ||||
| 6 | vanish | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | mark | the white bull | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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