Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 5

His companions joyfully assented to this plan; and, in the first place, being very hungry and thirsty, they looked about them for the means of providing a comfortable meal.

Who acts: companions, the · What happens: assent, be, look, mean, provide · To what, where: comfortable meal · 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 (companions, the), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 companions	nmod:poss
2	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 assented	nsubj
3	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	4 assented	advmod
4	assented	assent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 plan	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assented	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assented	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hungry	punct
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hungry	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 hungry	advmod
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thirsty	cc
20	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hungry	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 assented	parataxis
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 means	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 looked	parataxis
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 providing	mark
30	providing	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 means	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 meal	det
32	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 meal	amod
33	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 providing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	assent	participle	His companions		to this plan; joyfully property	tree rules
2	is	gerund			hungry property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules
4	look	past	companions = companion		about habitations = habitation	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme
5	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	provide	gerund		a comfortable meal		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition meal=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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