Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 3
After performing this last sorrowful duty, he set forth alone, and took the road towards the famous oracle of Delphi, as Telephassa had advised him.
Who acts: smile, this · What happens: perform, duty, set, take, advise · To what, where: road, Telephassa
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 (smile, this), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 performing | mark |
| 2 | performing | perform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 set | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 duty | nsubj |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duty | amod |
| 5 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duty | amod |
| 6 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 performing | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 performing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 oracle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oracle | det |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 oracle | amod |
| 20 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Delphi | case |
| 22 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 oracle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 advised | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 advised | mark |
| 25 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 advised | aux |
| 27 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 took | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 advised | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | gerund | smile not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | duty | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | set | past | smile | alone, forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the road | towards the famous oracle of Delphi | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Telephassa | tree rules |
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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