Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 65
When Cadmus saw that it was impossible to come up with her, he walked on moderately, as before.
Who acts: Cadmus, Brindle · What happens: see, be, come up, walk · 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, Brindle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 impossible | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 impossible | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | cop |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impossible | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 moderately | case |
| 17 | moderately | moderately | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 walked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 before | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 before | case |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Cadmus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come up | to-infinitive | with Cadmus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | Brindle | before property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moderately=Trajectory |
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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