Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 78
And now the city was built, and there was a home in it for each of the workmen.
What happens: build, be · To what, where: city, home
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 built | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 built | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 it | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 built | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 built | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 workmen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 workmen | det |
| 19 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 each | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the city | now | for each | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for each=Asset | |||
| 2 | is | past | home | tree rules |
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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