Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 28

It repeated, over and over again, the following sentence, which, after all, was so like the vague whistle of a blast of air, that Cadmus really did not quite know whether it meant anything or not:

Who acts: language, following sentence, Cadmus · What happens: repeat, follow, be, not know, mean, blast · To what, where: following sentence, anything, air

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 (language, following sentence, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 over	punct
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 repeated	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 again	cc
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 again	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 over	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sentence	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sentence	det
10	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sentence	amod
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whistle	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 whistle	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 which	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 which	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 which	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 whistle	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 whistle	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 whistle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 whistle	det
22	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whistle	amod
23	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sentence	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 blast	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 blast	det
26	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whistle	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 air	case
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blast	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 know	mark
31	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 know	nsubj
32	really	really	ADV	_	36 know	advmod
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 repeated	parataxis
37	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 meant	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 meant	nsubj
39	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 know	advcl
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 meant	obj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 not	cc
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 anything	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	language	the following sentence	over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the following sentence		like the vague whistle; of a blast of air	tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	Cadmus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	mean	past	language	anything		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
6	blast			air		nom blast «act 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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