Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 17
It reminded him of those which he had helped to build for Phoenix and Cilix, and afterwards for Thasus.
Who acts: place · What happens: remind, help, build · To what, where: Delphi
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 (place), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reminded | nsubj |
| 2 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reminded | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 those | case |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 reminded | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 helped | aux |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 build | mark |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helped | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Phoenix | case |
| 13 | Phoenix | Phoenix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 build | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Cilix | cc |
| 15 | Cilix | Cilix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Phoenix | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afterwards | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 afterwards | cc |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 reminded | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Thasus | case |
| 20 | Thasus | Thasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 afterwards | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | place | Delphi | of those; afterwards property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of that=Topic | |||
| 2 | help | past · perfect | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | for Phoenix and Cilix | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for phoenix=Beneficiary |
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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