Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 102
"This, then," said Cadmus, gazing around him, "this is to be my home."
Who acts: This · What happens: say, gaze, be · To what, where: home · 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 (This), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gazing | punct |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gazing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 home | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 home | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 home | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 home | cop |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | This not said here | around matter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | my home | tree rules |
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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