Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 73
They set to work in good earnest, and toiled so diligently, that, in a very short time, a city began to make its appearance.
Who acts: fellows, city · What happens: set, work, toil, begin, make · To what, where: appearance
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 (fellows, city), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1037): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 set | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 earnest | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 earnest | amod |
| 7 | earnest | earnest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 toiled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 toiled | cc |
| 10 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 diligently | advmod |
| 12 | diligently | diligently | ADV | _ | 10 toiled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 began | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 short | advmod |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 diligently | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | fellows = fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | fellows = fellow not said here | in good earnest | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in earnest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | toil | past | fellows = fellow not said here | diligently property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | a city | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | a city not said here | city's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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