Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 45
He turned away from the oracle, and thought himself no wiser than when he came thither.
Who acts: home · What happens: turn away, think, come
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 (home), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 oracle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oracle | det |
| 6 | oracle | oracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 wiser | nsubj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 wiser | advmod |
| 12 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 came | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wiser | advcl |
| 17 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | home | from the oracle; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from oracle=Source | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | home not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | home | thither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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