Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 67
But his mother persuaded him to stay a day or two longer, while she got ready some necessary articles for his journey.
Who acts: mother, Athens · What happens: persuade, stay, get, journey · To what, where: Athens, ready necessary articles
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Athens), 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 | _ | 4 persuaded | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persuaded | nsubj |
| 4 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 persuaded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 persuaded | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 longer | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 longer | nummod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 day | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuaded | conj |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 articles | amod |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 articles | det |
| 19 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 articles | amod |
| 20 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 articles | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | Athens's mother | Athens | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | Athens not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | mother | some ready necessary articles | for Athens's journey | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent article=Theme for journey=Source | |||
| 4 | journey | Athens | nom journey «act 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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