Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 53

Cadmus loitered behind, whistling idly to himself, and scarcely noticing the cow; until the thought occurred to him, whether this could possibly be the animal which, according to the oracle's response, was to serve him for a guide.

Who acts: Cadmus, thought, response · What happens: loiter, whistle, notice, occur, be, accord · To what, where: man, cow, animal

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, thought, response), 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	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loitered	nsubj
2	loitered	loiter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 loitered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whistling	punct
5	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 loitered	advcl
6	idly	idly	ADV	_	5 whistling	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 whistling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 noticing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 noticing	cc
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	12 noticing	advmod
12	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 loitered	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cow	det
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noticing	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 occurred	punct
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 occurred	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thought	det
18	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occurred	nsubj
19	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loitered	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 occurred	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 animal	punct
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 animal	mark
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 animal	det
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 animal	aux
26	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	29 animal	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 animal	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animal	det
29	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 occurred	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 serve	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 response	punct
32	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 response	case
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 according	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 oracle	det
35	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 response	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 oracle	case
37	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 serve	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 response	punct
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 serve	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 serve	mark
41	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 animal	acl:relcl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 serve	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 guide	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 guide	det
45	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 serve	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loitered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	loiter	past	Cadmus			behind property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	gerund	Cadmus not said here		man	idly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	notice	gerund	Cadmus not said here	the cow		scarcely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus
4	occur	past	the thought		man		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	could		this animal		possibly property	tree rules
6	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	the oracle's response			for a guide; serve property	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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