Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 19
But do not you suppose that it made Cadmus sorrowful to think of the melancholy fate which had befallen those poor, friendly people, who had followed the cow along with him?
Who acts: you, thrust, Cadmus, poor friendly people · What happens: not suppose, make, think, befall, follow · To what, where: Cadmus, melancholy fate, poor friendly people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, thrust, Cadmus, poor friendly people), 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 suppose | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 suppose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suppose | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppose | ccomp |
| 9 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sorrowful | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fate | det |
| 15 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fate | compound |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 befallen | aux |
| 19 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fate | acl:relcl |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 people | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 poor | punct |
| 23 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 befallen | obl:agent |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 followed | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 followed | aux |
| 28 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 people | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cow | det |
| 30 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 followed | obj |
| 31 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 followed | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suppose | infinitive · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | thrust | Cadmus | sorrowful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cadmus=Product | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | of the melancholy fate | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | befall | past · perfect · passive | that poor friendly people | the melancholy fate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | past · perfect · passive | that poor friendly people | along Cadmus | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme cow=Attribute |
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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