Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 26

But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after pounding the monstrous head almost to pieces with a great stone, he at last collected as many teeth as might have filled a bushel or two.

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: toil, tug, pound, collect, fill · To what, where: last filled bushel, monstrous head

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	_	3 toiled	cc
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 toiled	nsubj
3	toiled	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tugged	cc
5	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 toiled	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bushel	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bushel	cc
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 pounding	mark
9	pounding	pound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 bushel	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 head	amod
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pounding	obj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 pieces	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pounding	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 stone	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pounding	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pounding	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bushel	nsubj
22	at	at	ADP	_	33 bushel	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bushel	amod
24	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bushel	advcl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 teeth	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 teeth	amod
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 collected	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 filled	mark
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 filled	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 filled	aux
31	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bushel	amod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bushel	det
33	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 toiled	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 two	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 bushel	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 toiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	toil	past	Cadmus		a last filled bushel		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bushel=Trajectory
2	tug	past	Cadmus not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	pound	gerund	Cadmus not said here	the monstrous head		to pieces result; with a great stone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient to piece=Result with stone=Instrument
4	collect	participle	Cadmus not said here			as many teeth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fill	might · perfect					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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