Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 42
How fortunate would it be for a great conqueror, if he could get a bushel of the dragon's teeth to sow!
Who acts: world, Cadmus · What happens: be, get, sow · To what, where: bushel
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 (world, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 fortunate | advmod |
| 2 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 conqueror | amod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 conqueror | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 conqueror | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 conqueror | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 conqueror | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 conqueror | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 conqueror | amod |
| 9 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 conqueror | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bushel | det |
| 16 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 teeth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 dragon | case |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bushel | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sow | mark |
| 23 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | advcl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 conqueror | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | world | for a fortunate great conqueror | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | Cadmus | a bushel of the dragon's teeth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sow | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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