Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 89
At the farther extremity of this hall, approaching slowly towards him, Cadmus beheld a female figure, wonderfully beautiful, and adorned with a royal robe, and a crown of diamonds over her golden ringlets, and the richest necklace that ever a queen wore.
Who acts: farther extremity, Cadmus, queen · What happens: approach, behold, adorn, wear, crown · To what, where: female figure, farther extremity, richest necklace, diamonds, golden ringlets
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 (farther extremity, Cadmus, queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 extremity | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 extremity | det |
| 3 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 extremity | amod |
| 4 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beheld | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 extremity | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 approaching | punct |
| 9 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 extremity | acl |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 approaching | advmod |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 approaching | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 extremity | punct |
| 14 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beheld | nsubj |
| 15 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 figure | det |
| 17 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 figure | amod |
| 18 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beheld | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 20 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 figure | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 adorned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 adorned | cc |
| 24 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 beheld | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 robe | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 robe | det |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robe | amod |
| 28 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 adorned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 crown | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 crown | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 crown | det |
| 32 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beheld | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 diamonds | case |
| 34 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 crown | nmod |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 38 ringlets | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ringlets | nmod:poss |
| 37 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ringlets | amod |
| 38 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 crown | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 necklace | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 necklace | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 necklace | det |
| 42 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 necklace | amod |
| 43 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beheld | parataxis |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 wore | obj |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 queen | advmod |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 queen | det |
| 47 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 wore | nsubj |
| 48 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 necklace | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund | the farther extremity of this hall not said here | towards Cadmus; slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | Cadmus | a female figure | the farther extremity of this hall | a crown of diamonds over nature's golden ringlets obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | adorn | participle | Cadmus not said here | with a royal robe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with robe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | a queen | the richest necklace | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | ||||
| 5 | crown | diamonds | nature's golden ringlets | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient over=place |
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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