Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 106

He was very glad to know that here he might awake in the morning without the necessity of putting on his dusty sandals to travel farther and farther.

Who acts: feeling, necessity · What happens: be, know, awake, put, travel · To what, where: dusty sandals · 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 (feeling, necessity), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glad	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 glad	advmod
4	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 glad	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 awake	mark
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 awake	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 awake	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 awake	aux
11	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 morning	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awake	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 necessity	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 necessity	det
17	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awake	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 putting	mark
19	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 necessity	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 sandals	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sandals	nmod:poss
22	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sandals	amod
23	sandals	sandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 putting	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 travel	mark
25	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 putting	advcl
26	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 travel	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 farther	cc
28	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 farther	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	feeling			glad property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	feeling not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	awake	might	feeling	here	morning	without the necessity	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	gerund	the necessity not said here	feeling's dusty sandals			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on sandal=Destination
5	travel	to-infinitive	the necessity not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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