Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 46

Caring little what might happen to him, he took the first path that offered itself, and went along at a sluggish pace; for, having no object in view, nor any reason to go one way more than another, it would certainly have been foolish to make haste.

Who acts: home, first path, it · What happens: care, happen, take, offer, go along, have · To what, where: little, home, first path, path, object, view

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, first path, it), 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	Caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 took	advcl
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Caring	obj
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Caring	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Caring	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 path	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 path	amod
13	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 offered	nsubj
15	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 path	acl:relcl
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 offered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
20	along	along	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 pace	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pace	det
23	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pace	amod
24	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 having	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 having	mark
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 having	punct
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 went	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 object	det
30	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 view	case
32	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 reason	punct
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 reason	cc
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 reason	det
36	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 go	mark
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 reason	acl
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 way	nummod
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl:unmarked
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 go	advmod
42	than	than	ADP	_	43 another	case
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 more	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 foolish	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 foolish	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 foolish	aux
47	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	50 foolish	advmod
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 foolish	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 foolish	cop
50	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 took	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 make	mark
52	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 foolish	xcomp
53	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 make	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	care	gerund	home not said here	little				tree rules
2	happen	might			home			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	home	the first path				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
4	offer	past	the first path	path				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
5	go along	past	home not said here				at a sluggish pace; along property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location
6	have	gerund	home not said here	no object		view		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient
7	go	to-infinitive	home not said here	one way				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	would · perfect	it				certainly, foolish property	tree rules
9	make	to-infinitive		haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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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