Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 47
Whenever he met anybody, the old question was at his tongue's end.
Who acts: home, old question · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: anybody, end
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, old question), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 met | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 question | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 question | amod |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 tongue | case |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anybody | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | home | anybody | whenever property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | the old question | at home's tongue's end | tree rules |
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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