Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 9

Poor Cadmus found it more wearisome to travel alone than to bear all his dear mother's weight, while she had kept him company.

Who acts: Poor Cadmus, joke, Cadmus · What happens: find, travel, bear, keep · To what, where: joke, weight, mariner

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 (Poor Cadmus, joke, 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Cadmus	amod
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 wearisome	advmod
6	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 travel	mark
8	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wearisome	xcomp
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 travel	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 bear	mark
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bear	mark
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 travel	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 weight	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weight	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 mother	case
18	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 kept	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kept	aux
23	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kept	obj
25	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Poor Cadmus	joke	wearisome property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	travel	to-infinitive	joke not said here		alone property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear	to-infinitive	joke not said here	mariner's dear mother's weight		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
4	keep	past · perfect	Cadmus	mariner	company obl:unmarked	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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