Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 7

They went thither to fetch some, leaving Cadmus stretched on the ground along with the brindled cow; for, now that he had found a place of rest, it seemed as if all the weariness of his pilgrimage, ever since he left King Agenor's palace, had fallen upon him at once.

Who acts: companions, Cadmus, it · What happens: go, fetch, leave, stretch, find, seem · To what, where: some, Cadmus, ground, place, palace

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, Cadmus, it), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thither	thither	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 fetch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaving	punct
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fetch	advcl
9	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leaving	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stretched	obl
14	along	along	ADP	_	18 cow	case
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 cow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
17	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cow	amod
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stretched	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	2 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 found	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 found	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 found	aux
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 rest	case
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 place	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seemed	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seemed	nsubj
33	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
34	as	as	ADP	_	38 weariness	case
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 weariness	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 weariness	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 weariness	det
38	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seemed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 pilgrimage	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
41	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 weariness	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 left	punct
43	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 left	advmod
44	since	since	SCONJ	_	46 left	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 left	nsubj
46	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seemed	parataxis
47	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Agenor	compound
48	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 palace	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 Agenor	case
50	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 left	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fallen	punct
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 fallen	aux
53	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 left	conj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fallen	obl
56	at	at	ADP	_	57 once	case
57	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	53 fallen	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	companions = companion				thither property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	companions = companion not said here	some				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
3	leave	gerund	companions = companion not said here	Cadmus				tree rules
4	stretch	participle	Cadmus not said here		the ground		along the brindled cow	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cow=Location
5	find	past · perfect	Cadmus	a place of rest		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
6	seem	past	it				as all weariness of Cadmus's pilgrimage	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	leave	past	Cadmus	King Agenor's palace		ever		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
8	fall	past · perfect	Cadmus not said here				upon Cadmus	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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