Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 94

The strangers grew very fond of Cadmus, and resolved never to leave him, but to help him build a city wherever the cow might lie down.

Who acts: strangers, cow · What happens: grow, resolve, not leave, help, build, lie down · To what, where: king, city

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 (strangers, cow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strangers	det
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Cadmus	case
7	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fond	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 resolved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 resolved	cc
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 leave	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 leave	mark
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resolved	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 build	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 help	mark
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 build	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grew	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 build	obj
23	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	27 lie	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lie	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lie	aux
27	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 build	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 lie	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the strangers			fond property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	resolve	past	the strangers not said here				tree rules
3	not leave	to-infinitive	the strangers not said here	king			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	help	to-infinitive			king		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	build	infinitive	the strangers not said here	a city			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product
6	lie down	might	the cow			down, wherever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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