Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 24

"Cadmus," said a voice but whether it came from above or below him, or whether it spoke within his own breast, the young man could not tell--"Cadmus, pluck out the dragon's teeth, and plant them in the earth."

Who acts: Cadmus, voice, young man · What happens: say, come, speak, not tell, pluck out, plant · To what, where: voice, teeth, earth · 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 (Cadmus, voice, young man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 above	case
13	above	above	ADV	_	11 came	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 him	cc
15	below	below	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 spoke	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	nsubj
21	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	advcl
22	within	within	ADP	_	25 breast	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 breast	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 breast	amod
25	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spoke	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spoke	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 tell	advmod
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 pluck	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 pluck	punct
35	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 pluck	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pluck	punct
37	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 pluck	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dragon	det
40	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 teeth	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 dragon	case
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pluck	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 plant	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 plant	cc
45	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 plant	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 earth	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 earth	det
49	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plant	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cadmus	a voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
2	come	past	voice				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial_Location
3	speak speech: other	past	voice			within Cadmus's own breast	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	could	the young man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pluck out in a quote	infinitive	Cadmus	the dragon's teeth			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
6	plant in a quote	infinitive	the young man not said here	teeth = tooth	the earth		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in earth=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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