Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 79
Telephassa and Cadmus were now pursuing their weary way, with no companion but each other.
Who acts: Telephassa · What happens: pursue · To what, where: weary way
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 (Telephassa), 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 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuing | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Cadmus | cc |
| 3 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Telephassa | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pursuing | aux |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 pursuing | advmod |
| 6 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 companion | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 companion | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 companion | det |
| 13 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuing | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 each | cc |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 companion | nmod |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pursuing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past · progressive | Telephassa and Cadmus | Cadmus's weary way | now | with no companion each | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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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