Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 28
This, likewise, was a tedious piece of work, especially as Cadmus was already exhausted with killing the dragon and knocking his head to pieces, and had nothing to dig the earth with, that I know of, unless it were his sword blade.
Who acts: This, I, dragon · What happens: be, exhaust, kill, knock, have, dig · To what, where: tedious piece, Cadmus, dragon, head, pieces, nothing
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 (This, I, dragon), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 piece | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 likewise | punct |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 8 piece | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 likewise | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 piece | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exhausted | punct |
| 12 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 17 exhausted | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 exhausted | mark |
| 14 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 exhausted | advmod |
| 17 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 piece | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 killing | mark |
| 19 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 exhausted | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killing | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knocking | cc |
| 23 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 killing | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knocking | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 knocking | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exhausted | parataxis |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 dig | mark |
| 33 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nothing | acl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dig | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 dig | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 know | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 know | nsubj |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 had | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 know | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 blade | punct |
| 43 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 48 blade | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 blade | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 blade | cop |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 blade | nmod:poss |
| 47 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 blade | compound |
| 48 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 know | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a tedious piece | of work; likewise property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exhaust | past · passive | Cadmus | especially property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | the dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | |||||
| 4 | knock | gerund | Cadmus's head | pieces | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme to piece=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have | past | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||||
| 6 | dig | to-infinitive | the earth | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | dragon | Cadmus's sword blade | tree rules |
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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