Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 81
But, when Cadmus arose, and took his way towards the site where the palace was to be built, followed by his five sturdy workmen marching all in a row, what do you think he saw?
Who acts: Cadmus, five sturdy workmen, you · What happens: arise, take, build, follow, march, think · To what, where: way, palace, row · 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 (Cadmus, five sturdy workmen, you), 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 | _ | 5 arose | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 arose | advmod |
| 4 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 site | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 site | det |
| 13 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 built | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 built | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 built | aux:pass |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 site | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followed | punct |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 built | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 workmen | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 workmen | nmod:poss |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 workmen | nummod |
| 26 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 workmen | amod |
| 27 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 followed | obl:agent |
| 28 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 workmen | acl |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 row | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 row | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 row | det |
| 32 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marching | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 think | punct |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 think | obj |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 think | aux |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 think | nsubj |
| 37 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 row | conj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 think | ccomp |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Cadmus | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Cadmus not said here | Cadmus's way | towards the site | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 3 | build | past · passive | Cadmus not said here | the palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | follow | participle | Cadmus not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | march | gerund | Cadmus's five sturdy workmen not said here | a row | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme row=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | a row | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | past | Cadmus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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