Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 88
But, one day, Telephassa seemed feebler than usual, and leaned almost her whole weight on the arm of Cadmus, and walked more slowly than ever before.
Who acts: Telephassa · What happens: seem, learn, walk · To what, where: whole weight, arm
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 seemed | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | feebler | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feebler | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaned | cc |
| 13 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seemed | conj |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 weight | advmod |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 weight | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weight | amod |
| 17 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaned | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 arm | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arm | det |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Cadmus | case |
| 22 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 arm | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seemed | conj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 slowly | advmod |
| 27 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 before | mark |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 before | advmod |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 27 slowly | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Telephassa | day | feeble property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | past | Telephassa not said here | Telephassa's whole weight | the arm of Cadmus | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Topic | |||
| 3 | walk | past | Telephassa not said here | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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