Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 82

He mentioned, likewise, that the oracle had bidden him be guided by a cow, and inquired of the strangers whether they supposed that this brindled animal could be the one.

Who acts: herdsman, cow, strangers, brindled animal · What happens: mention, bid, guide, inquire, suppose, be · To what, where: oracle, one

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 (herdsman, cow, strangers, brindled animal), 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	2 mentioned	nsubj
2	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 likewise	punct
4	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	2 mentioned	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bidden	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bidden	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oracle	det
8	oracle	oracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bidden	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bidden	aux
10	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mentioned	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bidden	obj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 guided	aux:pass
13	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bidden	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 cow	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cow	det
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guided	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 inquired	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 inquired	cc
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bidden	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 strangers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 strangers	det
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 inquired	obl
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 supposed	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 supposed	nsubj
25	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 inquired	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 one	mark
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 animal	det
28	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animal	amod
29	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 one	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 one	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 supposed	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	past	herdsman		likewise property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · perfect · passive		the oracle		tree rules
3	guide	infinitive · passive	a cow			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	inquire speech: other	participle			of the strangers	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of stranger=Recipient
5	suppose	past	strangers = stranger			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	could	this brindled animal	the one		tree rules

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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