Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 80
Cadmus was glad of somebody to converse with, and therefore talked very freely to these good people.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: be, converse, talk
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), 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 | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 somebody | case |
| 5 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 glad | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 converse | mark |
| 7 | converse | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 somebody | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 converse | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talked | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 freely | advmod |
| 14 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 people | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 talked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cadmus | of somebody; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | converse speech: other | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | talk | past | Cadmus not said here | to this good people; freely, therefore property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent |
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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