Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 78

And, though Europa never came, the good Thasus had the blessings of many a poor traveler, who profited by the food and lodging which were meant for the little playmate of the king's boyhood.

Who acts: Europa, good Thasus, poor traveler · What happens: not come, have, profit, lodge, mean, bless · To what, where: blessings, food, poor traveler

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 (Europa, good Thasus, poor traveler), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 And	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Thasus	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Thasus	amod
10	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blessings	det
13	blessings	blessing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 traveler	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 traveler	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 traveler	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 traveler	amod
18	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blessings	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 profited	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 profited	nsubj
21	profited	profit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 traveler	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 food	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 food	det
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 profited	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lodging	cc
26	lodging	lodge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 food	conj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 meant	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 meant	aux:pass
29	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 food	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 playmate	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 playmate	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 playmate	amod
33	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meant	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 boyhood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boyhood	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 king	case
38	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 playmate	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come	past	Europa			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the good Thasus	the blessings of a poor traveler		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient
3	profit	past	a poor traveler		by the food	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by food=Causer
4	lodge	gerund	a poor traveler not said here			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	past · passive		the food	for the little playmate of the king's boyhood	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for playmate=Attribute
6	bless			a poor traveler		nom blessing «act 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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