Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 79
But the palace of Cadmus was not yet erected, because they had left it till the last, meaning to introduce all the new improvements of architecture, and make it very commodious, as well as stately and beautiful.
Who acts: workmen, you, architecture · What happens: not erect, leave, mean, introduce, make, improve · To what, where: palace, new improvements
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 (workmen, you, architecture), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 erected | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Cadmus | case |
| 5 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 palace | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 erected | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 erected | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 erected | advmod |
| 9 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 make | csubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 erected | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | obj |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 last | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 left | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meaning | punct |
| 20 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 left | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 introduce | mark |
| 22 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 meaning | xcomp |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 improvements | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 improvements | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 improvements | amod |
| 26 | improvements | improvement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 introduce | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 architecture | case |
| 28 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 improvements | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 make | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 make | cc |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 commodious | advmod |
| 34 | commodious | commodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 make | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stately | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 39 stately | advmod |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 as | fixed |
| 39 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 31 make | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 beautiful | cc |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 stately | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not erect | past · passive | the palace of Cadmus | yet | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | workmen = workman | palace | till the last | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | gerund | workmen = workman not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | introduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | workmen = workman not said here | all new improvements of architecture | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent improvement=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | imperative | you not said here | palace | commodious, stately property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 6 | improve | architecture | nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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