Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 39
Every tooth of the dragon had produced one of these sons of deadly mischief.
What happens: produce · To what, where: tooth
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: 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 tooth | det |
| 2 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tooth | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 produced | aux |
| 7 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 produced | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 sons | det |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mischief | case |
| 13 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mischief | amod |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past · perfect · passive | every tooth of the dragon | 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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