Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 107
The days and the years would pass over him, and find him still in this pleasant spot.
Who acts: days · What happens: pass, find · To what, where: feeling, pleasant spot
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 (days), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 years | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 years | det |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | aux |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pass | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pass | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 find | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 spot | det |
| 17 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spot | amod |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | would | the days and the years | over feeling | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over he=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | the days and the years not said here | feeling | this pleasant spot | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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