Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 76
He returned after a lengthened absence, and sat down wearily upon his throne.
Who acts: king · What happens: return, lengthen, sit down · To what, where: throne
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 absence | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 absence | det |
| 5 | lengthened | lengthen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 absence | amod |
| 6 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | king | after a lengthened absence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lengthen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | sit down | past | king not said here | king's throne | wearily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
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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