Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 62
They still had a very furious look, and, if Cadmus happened to glance aside, would glare at one another, with fire flashing out of their eyes.
Who acts: teeth, Cadmus, fire · What happens: have, happen, glance, glare, flash · To what, where: furious look, eyes
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, fire), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 furious | advmod |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 look | amod |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glare | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glare | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 happened | mark |
| 12 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glare | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 glance | mark |
| 15 | glance | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 happened | xcomp |
| 16 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 15 glance | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 glare | aux |
| 19 | glare | glare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 glare | obl |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fire | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glare | parataxis |
| 26 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 fire | acl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flashing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | teeth = tooth | a furious look | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 2 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past | Cadmus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | glance | to-infinitive | Cadmus not said here | aside property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glare | would | teeth = tooth not said here | at one | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location | ||||
| 5 | flash | gerund | fire not said here | teeth's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location |
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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