Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 93

Telephassa bade him sit down on the turf beside her, and then she took his hand.

Who acts: Telephassa · What happens: bade, sit down, take · To what, where: rest, turf, hand

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	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	obj
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 turf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 turf	det
8	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 took	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Telephassa	rest				tree rules
2	sit down	infinitive	Telephassa not said here		the turf		beside Telephassa	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on turf=Location
3	take	past	Telephassa	rest's hand		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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