Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 5
So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace, with his new friend Harmonia, and found a great deal of comfort in his magnificent abode, but would doubtless have found as much, if not more, in the humblest cottage by the wayside.
Who acts: King · What happens: dwell, find, deal · To what, where: palace, great deal, much, comfort · 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 (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 13 | Harmonia | Harmonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwelt | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deal | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deal | amod |
| 19 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 comfort | case |
| 21 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deal | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 abode | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 abode | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 abode | amod |
| 25 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comfort | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 doubtless | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 doubtless | cc |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 doubtless | aux |
| 29 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 found | conj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 found | aux |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 doubtless | csubj |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 found | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 more | punct |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 more | mark |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 more | advmod |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 found | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 cottage | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 cottage | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cottage | det |
| 41 | humblest | humble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 cottage | amod |
| 42 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 more | obl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 wayside | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wayside | det |
| 45 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cottage | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | King | the palace | with King's new friend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | King not said here | a great deal of comfort in King's magnificent abode | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent deal=Theme more=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | much | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic | |||||
| 4 | deal | comfort in King's magnificent abode | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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