Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 1

But, as Cadmus advanced to meet the beautiful stranger, he saw that her features were unknown to him, although, in the little time that it required to tread along the hall, he had already felt a sympathy betwixt himself and her.

Who acts: Cadmus, features, stranger, her · What happens: advance, meet, see, be, require, tread · To what, where: beautiful stranger, Cadmus, hall, sympathy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, features, stranger, her), 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	_	13 saw	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 advanced	mark
4	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 advanced	nsubj
5	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 advanced	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stranger	amod
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 advanced	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 unknown	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 features	nmod:poss
16	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 unknown	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unknown	cop
18	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saw	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unknown	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
22	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 time	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 although	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 required	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 required	nsubj
30	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 time	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tread	mark
32	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 required	xcomp
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 hall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hall	det
35	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tread	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 felt	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 felt	aux
39	already	already	ADV	_	40 felt	advmod
40	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 saw	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sympathy	det
42	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 felt	obj
43	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sympathy	amod
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 betwixt	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 her	cc
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 himself	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	past	Cadmus						vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	the beautiful stranger					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Co-Agent
3	see	past	Cadmus				time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	her features		Cadmus			unknown property	tree rules
5	require	past	stranger						vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
6	tread	to-infinitive	stranger not said here			the hall			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hall=Trajectory
7	feel	past · perfect	Cadmus	a sympathy					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Theme
8	feature		her = she						nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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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