Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 99
Cadmus burst into tears, and, for a long time, refused to believe that his dear mother was now to be taken from him.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: burst, refuse, not believe, take · To what, where: tears, dear mother · 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), 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 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 tears | case |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burst | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refused | punct |
| 13 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 believe | mark |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refused | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mother | amod |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 taken | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taken | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Cadmus | tears | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | Cadmus not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not believe | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take | past · passive | rest's dear mother | now | from rest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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