Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 44
"Did there really come any words out of the hole?" thought Cadmus; "or have I been dreaming all this while?"
Who acts: Cadmus, gust · What happens: come, think, dream · To what, where: words, hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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, gust), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Did | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 15 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 dreaming | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dreaming | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dreaming | nsubj |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 dreaming | aux |
| 22 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 while | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 while | det |
| 25 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dreaming | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past · do-support | any words | the hole | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Cadmus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dream in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | gust | while | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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