Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 69
"I do believe," thought Cadmus, "that this may be the cow that was foretold me.
Who acts: Cadmus, this · What happens: believe, think, be, foretell · To what, where: cow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, this), 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 | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | conj |
| 8 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cow | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cow | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cow | mark |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 cow | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cow | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cow | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cadmus | appos |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 foretold | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 foretold | aux:pass |
| 19 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cow | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 foretold | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | Cadmus | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Cadmus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | may | this | the cow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | foretell in a quote | past · passive | the cow | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality |
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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