Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 21

And here he was, after all his toils and troubles, in a solitary place, with not a single human being to help him build a hut.

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: be, help, not be, toil · To what, where: Cadmus

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 place	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 place	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	16 place	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 toils	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toils	nmod:poss
9	toils	toil	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 place	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 troubles	cc
11	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 toils	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 place	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 build	punct
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 build	mark
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 build	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 build	det
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 human	amod
22	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 build	csubj
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 build	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 help	mark
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 build	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 help	obj
27	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 here	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hut	det
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 build	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cadmus		after a solitary place		tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive		Cadmus			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	not is	gerund				build property	tree rules
4	toil		Cadmus				nom toil «act intransitive»: 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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