Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 93
But still they kept trudging stoutly forward, and talking as they went.
Who acts: miles · What happens: keep, trudge, talk, go
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 (miles), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kept | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | trudging | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 5 trudging | advmod |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 trudging | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | nsubj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | miles = mile | still | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trudge | gerund | miles = mile not said here | forward, stoutly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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