Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 40
And when these words had been repeated until Cadmus was tired of hearing them (especially as he could not imagine what cow it was, or why he was to follow her), the gusty hole gave vent to another sentence.
Who acts: Cadmus, oracle, gusty hole · What happens: repeat, be, hear, not imagine, give · To what, where: words, vent, sentence
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, oracle, gusty hole), 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 | _ | 7 repeated | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 repeated | advmod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 repeated | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 repeated | aux:pass |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 tired | mark |
| 9 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tired | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tired | cop |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 repeated | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 hearing | mark |
| 13 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tired | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hearing | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 imagine | punct |
| 16 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 21 imagine | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 imagine | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 imagine | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 imagine | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 imagine | advmod |
| 21 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hearing | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 imagine | obj |
| 23 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 what | nsubj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cow | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 follow | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 follow | cc |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 follow | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 follow | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 follow | cop |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 follow | mark |
| 32 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 repeated | parataxis |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 follow | obj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 follow | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hole | det |
| 37 | gusty | gusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hole | amod |
| 38 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | nsubj |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 repeated | conj |
| 40 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 sentence | case |
| 42 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 sentence | det |
| 43 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · perfect · passive | this words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Cadmus | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | Cadmus not said here | words = word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not imagine | could | oracle | especially property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | oracle | follow property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | past | the gusty hole | vent | another sentence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to sentence=Recipient |
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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