Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 34

From the very hour that he left following the butterfly in the meadow, near his father's palace, he had done his best to follow Europa, over land and sea.

Who acts: cavity · What happens: leave, follow, do · To what, where: meadow, best, Europa, land

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 (cavity), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hour	advmod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 butterfly	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 butterfly	det
10	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 meadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 palace	punct
15	near	near	ADP	_	19 palace	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 palace	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 left	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 best	nmod:poss
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 done	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 follow	mark
27	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	advcl
28	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 follow	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 land	punct
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 land	case
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 follow	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sea	cc
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	cavity			hour	in the meadow result; follow the butterfly; near cavity's father's palace	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in meadow=Result
2	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	cavity	cavity's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	follow	to-infinitive	cavity not said here	Europa	land and sea			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent europa=Theme over land=Trajectory

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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