Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 90
"A good long rest!" she repeated, looking Cadmus tenderly in the face. "
Who acts: Telephassa · What happens: repeat, look · To what, where: good long rest, Cadmus
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rest | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rest | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rest | amod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rest | amod |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rest | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rest | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 repeated | nsubj |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 repeated | advcl |
| 12 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obj |
| 13 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looking | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tenderly | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Telephassa | a good long rest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Telephassa not said here | Cadmus | tenderly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cadmus=Attribute |
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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