Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 23
It were better for me to have been devoured by the dragon, as my poor companions were."
Who acts: dragon, poor companions · What happens: be, devour · To what, where: me
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 (dragon, poor companions), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 devoured | mark |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 devoured | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 devoured | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 devoured | aux:pass |
| 9 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 better | advcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 devoured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 were | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 were | mark |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 companions | amod |
| 17 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 were | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 devoured | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | devour | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the dragon | me | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | my poor companions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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