Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 89

At last they reached a solitary spot, where she told her son that she must needs lie down, and take a good long rest.

Who acts: Cadmus, Telephassa · What happens: reach, tell, need, lie down, take · To what, where: solitary spot, last, son, good long rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cadmus, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spot	det
6	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spot	amod
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 told	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spot	acl:relcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 needs	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 needs	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 needs	aux
17	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 needs	xcomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 lie	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rest	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rest	amod
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rest	amod
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	Cadmus	a solitary spot		last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent spot=Theme at last=Asset
2	tell speech: assert	past	Telephassa		Telephassa's son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	need	must	Telephassa				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	lie down not said to happen	infinitive	Telephassa not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	infinitive	Cadmus not said here	a good long rest			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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