Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 30
Cadmus, quite out of breath, stood leaning upon his sword, and wondering what was to happen next.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: stand, lean, wonder, happen · To what, where: sword · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 breath | punct |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 breath | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 breath | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 breath | case |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cadmus | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cadmus | punct |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stood | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondering | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondering | cc |
| 15 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stood | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 happen | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happen | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 happen | mark |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wondering | ccomp |
| 20 | next | next | ADV | _ | 19 happen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Cadmus | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | Cadmus not said here | Cadmus's sword | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sword=Location | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Cadmus not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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