Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 35

And now, if he must give up the search, he seemed to have no more business in the world.

Who acts: cavity · What happens: give up, seem, have · To what, where: search, more business, world

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 seemed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 give	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 search	det
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 business	det
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 business	amod
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 business	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give up a condition, not said to happen	must	cavity	the search			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source
2	seem	past	cavity			now	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	have	to-infinitive	cavity not said here	no more business	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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