Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 77
He had now grown too intent on following her to think of lagging behind, however long the way, and whatever might be his fatigue.
Who acts: herdsman, whatever · What happens: grow, follow, think, lag behind, be · To what, where: cow, fatigue
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 (herdsman, whatever), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 grown | advmod |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 intent | advmod |
| 6 | intent | intent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 following | mark |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 intent | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 following | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 following | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 lagging | mark |
| 13 | lagging | lag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 think | advcl |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 13 lagging | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 lagging | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fatigue | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fatigue | cc |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fatigue | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fatigue | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fatigue | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fatigue | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | herdsman | now | intent property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | herdsman not said here | cow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | herdsman not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lag behind | gerund | herdsman not said here | behind, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | might | whatever | herdsman's fatigue | 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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