Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 41
So enraged did they all look, that Cadmus fully expected them to put the whole world to the sword.
Who acts: teeth, Cadmus · What happens: look, expect, put · To what, where: teeth, whole world
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 (teeth, Cadmus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1008): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 enraged | advmod |
| 2 | enraged | enraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 they | det |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 expected | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 expected | mark |
| 9 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 expected | nsubj |
| 10 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 11 expected | advmod |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 expected | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expected | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sword | det |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | teeth = tooth | enraged property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | Cadmus | teeth = tooth | fully property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | teeth = tooth not said here | the whole world | to the sword | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent world=Goal |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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