Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 81

He told them all his adventures, and how he had left King Agenor in his palace, and Phoenix at one place, and Cilix at another, and Thasus at a third, and his dear mother, Queen Telephassa, under a flowery sod; so that now he was quite alone, both friendless and homeless.

Who acts: herdsman · What happens: tell, leave, be, adventure · To what, where: adventures, people, King, palace · 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 (herdsman), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 adventures	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 adventures	nmod:poss
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 left	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
14	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	flat
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Phoenix	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Phoenix	cc
20	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 place	nummod
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Cilix	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Cilix	cc
26	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 another	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 Cilix	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Thasus	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Thasus	cc
31	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Cilix	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 third	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 third	det
34	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Thasus	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mother	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 mother	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 mother	amod
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Cilix	appos
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Queen	punct
41	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 mother	appos
42	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Queen	flat
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sod	punct
44	under	under	ADP	_	47 sod	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 sod	det
46	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sod	amod
47	sod	sod	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mother	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 alone	punct
49	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	55 alone	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 so	fixed
51	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 so	fixed
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 alone	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 alone	cop
54	quite	quite	ADV	_	55 alone	advmod
55	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 told	advmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 friendless	punct
57	both	both	CCONJ	_	58 friendless	cc:preconj
58	friendless	friendless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 homeless	cc
60	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 friendless	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	herdsman	herdsman's adventures	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	leave	past · perfect	herdsman	King		herdsman's palace	at one place; Phoenix obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme in palace=Location
3	is	past	herdsman				alone property	tree rules
4	adventure		herdsman					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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