Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 86
"Long live King Cadmus," they cried, "in his beautiful palace."
Who acts: workmen · What happens: cry · To what, where: Long live King Cadmus, beautiful 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 (workmen), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cadmus | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cadmus | amod |
| 3 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Cadmus | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cadmus | compound |
| 5 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Cadmus | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cadmus | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cadmus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | workmen = workman | Long live King Cadmus not said here | Cadmus's beautiful palace | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cadmus=Topic |
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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