Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 31

He had waited but a few moments, when he began to see a sight, which was as great a marvel as the most marvelous thing I ever told you about.

Who acts: Cadmus, sight, I · What happens: wait, begin, see, be, tell · To what, where: sight, marvelous thing, you · 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, sight, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	aux
3	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 moments	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moments	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moments	amod
7	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waited	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 began	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sight	det
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 great	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 great	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 great	cop
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 great	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sight	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 marvel	det
22	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 great	obl:unmarked
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 thing	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thing	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 marvelous	advmod
26	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 told	nsubj
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 told	advmod
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	acl:relcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	about	about	ADV	_	30 told	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect	Cadmus					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Cadmus					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	see	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	a sight			as the marvelous thing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus as thing=Attribute
4	is	past	a sight				a marvel obl:unmarked; great property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	I	the marvelous thing not said here	you	ever	about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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