Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 72
So, whenever they reached a particularly pleasant spot on a breezy hillside, or in a sheltered vale, or flowery meadow, on the shore of a calm lake, or along the bank of a clear stream, Cadmus looked eagerly around to see if the situation would suit him for a home.
Who acts: peculiarities, Cadmus, situation · What happens: reach, shelter, look, see, suit · To what, where: pleasant spot, breezy hillside, Europa
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 (peculiarities, Cadmus, situation), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 3 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 reached | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 7 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 8 pleasant | advmod |
| 8 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hillside | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hillside | det |
| 12 | breezy | breezy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hillside | amod |
| 13 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vale | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 vale | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 vale | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vale | det |
| 18 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 vale | amod |
| 19 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meadow | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 meadow | cc |
| 22 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 meadow | amod |
| 23 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vale | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shore | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vale | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lake | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lake | det |
| 30 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lake | amod |
| 31 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shore | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bank | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 bank | cc |
| 34 | along | along | ADP | _ | 36 bank | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bank | det |
| 36 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lake | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 stream | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 stream | det |
| 39 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 stream | amod |
| 40 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bank | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 looked | punct |
| 42 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 looked | nsubj |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 44 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 45 around | advmod |
| 45 | around | around | ADV | _ | 43 looked | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 see | mark |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 looked | advcl |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 52 suit | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 situation | det |
| 50 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 suit | nsubj |
| 51 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 suit | aux |
| 52 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 see | ccomp |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 suit | obj |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 home | case |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 home | det |
| 56 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 suit | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | peculiarities = peculiarity | a pleasant spot | a breezy hillside | in a sheltered vale or flowery meadow and the shore of a calm lake; whenever property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||
| 2 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | Cadmus | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | suit a condition, not said to happen | would | the situation | Europa | for a home | 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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