Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 42
These words were pronounced but a single time, and died away into a whisper before Cadmus was fully satisfied that he had caught the meaning.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: pronounce, die away, be, catch · To what, where: words, whisper, home
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), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 4 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 time | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 whisper | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 whisper | det |
| 15 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 satisfied | mark |
| 17 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 satisfied | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfied | cop |
| 19 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 20 satisfied | advmod |
| 20 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 died | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 caught | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caught | aux |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 satisfied | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meaning | det |
| 26 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past · passive | this words | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die away | past | a whisper | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Cadmus | fully, satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect · passive | home | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary meaning=Theme |
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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