Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 60
These five men had probably sprung from the biggest of the dragon's teeth, and were the boldest and strongest of the whole army.
Who acts: five men · What happens: spring, be
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 (five men), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 men | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sprung | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprung | aux |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 sprung | advmod |
| 6 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 biggest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 biggest | det |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sprung | obl:agent |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 teeth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 biggest | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 strongest | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strongest | cc |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 strongest | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strongest | det |
| 19 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 strongest | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strongest | cc |
| 21 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sprung | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 army | amod |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strongest | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past · perfect | this five men | probably property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | of the whole army; strong property | 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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