Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 14
But Cadmus was so enraged at the destruction of his friends that he cared neither for the size of the dragon's jaws nor for his hundreds of sharp teeth.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: enrage, care, destroy · To what, where: Cadmus, destruction, friends
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 enraged | cc |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enraged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enraged | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 enraged | advmod |
| 5 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 destruction | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 destruction | det |
| 8 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enraged | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 destruction | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 cared | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cared | nsubj |
| 14 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enraged | advcl |
| 15 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 cared | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 size | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 size | det |
| 18 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cared | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jaws | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 dragon | case |
| 23 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 size | nmod |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 hundreds | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hundreds | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hundreds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 jaws | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 teeth | case |
| 29 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 teeth | amod |
| 30 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hundreds | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past · passive | Cadmus | the destruction of Cadmus's friends | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | care | past | Cadmus | for the size of the dragon's jaws nor Cadmus's hundreds of sharp teeth; neither property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for size=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy | Cadmus's friends | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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