Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 37

So rapidly did they grow, that Cadmus now discerned the fierce countenance of a man beneath every one.

Who acts: beans, Cadmus · What happens: grow, discern · To what, where: fierce countenance

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 (beans, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
2	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 discerned	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 discerned	mark
8	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 discerned	nsubj
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 discerned	advmod
10	discerned	discern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 countenance	det
12	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 countenance	amod
13	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discerned	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 countenance	nmod
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discerned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	beans = bean					rapidly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discern	past	Cadmus	the fierce countenance of a man			now	beneath every one	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer countenance=Stimulus

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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