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Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 11

It appears that the fountain of water was enchanted, and that the dragon had been set to guard it, so that no mortal might ever quench his thirst there.

Who acts: It, mortal · What happens: appear, enchant, set, guard, quench, thirst · To what, where: fountain, dragon, thirst

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, mortal), 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

nsubjmarkdetnsubj:passcasenmodaux:passadvclpunctccmarkdetnsubj:passauxaux:passconjmarkadvclobjpunctmarkfixeddetnsubjauxadvmodconjnmod:possobjadvmodpunctrootItPRONappearsVERBthatSCONJtheDETfountainNOUNofADPwaterNOUNwasAUXenchantedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJtheDETdragonNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXsetVERBtoPARTguardVERBitPRON,PUNCTsoSCONJthatSCONJnoDETmortalNOUNmightAUXeverADVquenchVERBhisPRONthirstNOUNthereADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 appearsnsubj
2appearsappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_9 enchantedmark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 fountaindet
5fountainfountainNOUNNumber=Sing9 enchantednsubj:pass
6ofofADP_7 watercase
7waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing5 fountainnmod
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 enchantedaux:pass
9enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 appearsadvcl
10,,PUNCT_17 setpunct
11andandCCONJ_17 setcc
12thatthatSCONJ_17 setmark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 dragondet
14dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing17 setnsubj:pass
15hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 setaux
16beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part17 setaux:pass
17setsetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 appearsconj
18totoPART_19 guardmark
19guardguardVERBVerbForm=Inf17 setadvcl
20ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 guardobj
21,,PUNCT_28 quenchpunct
22sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ28 quenchmark
23thatthatSCONJ_22 sofixed
24nonoDETPronType=Neg25 mortaldet
25mortalmortalNOUNNumber=Sing28 quenchnsubj
26mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin28 quenchaux
27evereverADVPronType=Ind28 quenchadvmod
28quenchquenchVERBVerbForm=Inf19 guardconj
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 thirstnmod:poss
30thirstthirstNOUNNumber=Sing28 quenchobj
31therethereADVPronType=Dem28 quenchadvmod
32..PUNCT_2 appearspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appearpresentItvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2enchantpast · passivethe fountain of watervn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3setpast · perfect · passivethe dragonvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4guardto-infinitivedragonvn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
5quenchmightno mortalmortal's thirstthereevervn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
6thirstmortalnom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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