Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 15
Drawing his sword, he rushed at the monster, and flung himself right into his cavernous mouth.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: draw, rush, fling · To what, where: sword, Cadmus, cavernous mouth
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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rushed | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sword | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drawing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 monster | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monster | det |
| 9 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flung | cc |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rushed | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 flung | obj |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 mouth | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cavernous | cavernous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mouth | amod |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Cadmus not said here | Cadmus's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Cadmus | at the monster | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at monster=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | Cadmus not said here | Cadmus | Cadmus's cavernous mouth | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into mouth=Destination |
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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