Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 20

When Cadmus had thrust a passage through the tangled boughs, and made his way into the bower, he did not at first discern the half-hidden cavity.

Who acts: Cadmus, Delphi · What happens: have, tangle, make, not discern · To what, where: thrust, way, bower, hidden cavity

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, Delphi), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 discern	advcl
4	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 passage	det
6	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 boughs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boughs	det
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boughs	amod
10	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passage	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 bower	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bower	det
18	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 discern	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 discern	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 discern	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 first	case
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 discern	obl
25	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cavity	det
27	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 hidden	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 half	punct
29	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cavity	amod
30	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 discern	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 discern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Cadmus	thrust		tree rules
2	tangle	participle				tree rules
3	make	past	Cadmus not said here	Delphi's way	the bower	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into bower=Product
4	not discern	past · do-support	Delphi	the hidden cavity		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cavity=Stimulus

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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