Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 13
Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus.
Who acts: mariner, thereabouts · What happens: come, tell, call, sight · To what, where: people, mariner, lofty mountain · 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 (mariner, thereabouts), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 remembrances | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 remembrances | det |
| 4 | remembrances | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Full | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Full | conj |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 12 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mountain | amod |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 called | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | thereabouts | thereabout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Parnassus | Parnassus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | mariner | within sight of a lofty mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | thereabouts | the people not said here | mariner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the people | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme which=Result | |||||
| 4 | sight | a lofty mountain | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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