Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 8

He did not know what had become of the child or the bull; and Cadmus suspected, indeed, by a queer twinkle in the mariner's eyes, that he was putting a joke upon him, and had never really heard anything about the matter.

Who acts: mariner, Cadmus · What happens: not know, become, suspect, put, not hear · To what, where: joke, anything · 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 (mariner, Cadmus), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 become	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	aux
7	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bull	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bull	det
13	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 suspected	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 suspected	cc
16	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 suspected	nsubj
17	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 indeed	punct
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	17 suspected	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 twinkle	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 twinkle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 twinkle	det
23	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 twinkle	amod
24	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 suspected	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mariner	det
27	mariner	mariner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eyes	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 mariner	case
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 twinkle	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 putting	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 putting	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 putting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 putting	aux
34	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 suspected	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 joke	det
36	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 putting	obj
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 putting	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 heard	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 heard	cc
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 heard	aux
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 heard	advmod
43	really	really	ADV	_	44 heard	advmod
44	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 suspected	conj
45	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	44 heard	obj
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 matter	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 matter	det
48	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 anything	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	mariner			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	become	past · perfect			of the child or the bull	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	suspect	past	Cadmus		by a queer twinkle in the mariner's eyes; indeed property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	put	past · progressive	mariner	a joke	upon bull	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme upon he=Destination
5	not hear	past · perfect	Cadmus not said here	anything	about the matter	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/8/