Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 14
On the slope of Mount Parnassus was the famous Delphi, whither Cadmus was going.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: be, go · To what, where: famous Delphi, slope
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 (Cadmus), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 slope | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slope | det |
| 3 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Delphi | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Mount | case |
| 5 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slope | nmod |
| 6 | Parnassus | Parnassus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mount | flat |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Delphi | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Delphi | det |
| 9 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Delphi | amod |
| 10 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 going | advmod |
| 13 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Delphi | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Delphi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the famous Delphi | the slope of Mount | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Cadmus | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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