Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 109

Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home, and smiled round upon the familiar faces.

Who acts: sister · What happens: come, smile · To what, where: day

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 (sister), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 smiled	obl:unmarked
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 other	cc
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
10	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sister	appos
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 home	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 home	nmod:poss
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 smiled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smiled	cc
23	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 smiled	advmod
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 faces	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 faces	det
27	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 faces	amod
28	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smiled	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might · perfect	feeling's sister	some day not said here				to the door of feeling's home; quietly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme
2	smile	past					day	upon the familiar faces; round property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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