Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 1

I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephassa died and was buried, but will only say, that her dying smile grew brighter, instead of vanishing from her dead face; so that Cadmus left convinced that, at her very first step into the better world, she had caught Europa in her arms.

Who acts: I, Telephassa, dying smile, Cadmus · What happens: not sadden, tell, die, bury, say, grow · To what, where: you, dead face, that, better world, Cadmus, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Telephassa, dying smile, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sadden	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sadden	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sadden	advmod
4	sadden	sadden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sadden	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hearers	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hearers	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hearers	amod
9	hearers	hearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sadden	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 telling	mark
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sadden	advcl
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 died	advmod
14	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 telling	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 buried	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 buried	aux:pass
18	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 died	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 say	advmod
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sadden	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 grew	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 smile	nmod:poss
27	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 smile	amod
28	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 say	conj
30	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 vanishing	punct
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 vanishing	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 grew	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 face	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 face	nmod:poss
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 face	amod
38	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 vanishing	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 left	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	43 left	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 left	mark
42	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 left	nsubj
43	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 say	ccomp
44	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 that	amod
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 left	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 step	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	51 step	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 step	nmod:poss
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 first	advmod
50	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	51 step	amod
51	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 left	obl
52	into	into	ADP	_	55 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 world	det
54	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	55 world	amod
55	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 left	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 caught	punct
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 caught	nsubj:pass
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 caught	aux
59	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 say	conj
60	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 caught	obj
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 arms	case
62	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 arms	nmod:poss
63	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 caught	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sadden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not sadden	future	I	you		my little hearers obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	I not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	past	Telephassa				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	bury	past · passive	Telephassa not said here				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
5	say speech: assert	future					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	grow	past	Telephassa's dying smile			bright property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	vanish	gerund	Telephassa's dying smile not said here		Telephassa's dead face		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from face=Initial_Location
9	leave	past	Cadmus	that	the better world	at Telephassa's first step	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme at step=Location
10	catch	past · perfect · passive		Cadmus	Telephassa's arms		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary europa=Theme
11	smile		Telephassa				nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent
12	step		Telephassa				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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