Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 64

Cadmus hardly knew whether to consider them as men, or some odd kind of vegetable; although, on the whole, he concluded that there was human nature in them, because they were so fond of trumpets and weapons, and so ready to shed blood.

Who acts: Cadmus, human nature, teeth · What happens: know, consider, conclude, be, shed · To what, where: teeth, blood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cadmus, human nature, teeth), 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	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 consider	mark
5	to	to	PART	_	6 consider	mark
6	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 consider	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consider	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 kind	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kind	det
13	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kind	amod
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 vegetable	case
16	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 whole	punct
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	22 whole	mark
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 although	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 whole	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 whole	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 concluded	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 concluded	nsubj
25	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 was	mark
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 concluded	ccomp
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nature	amod
30	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nature	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fond	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 fond	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fond	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 fond	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 fond	advmod
38	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 concluded	ccomp
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 trumpets	case
40	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fond	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 weapons	cc
42	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 trumpets	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 ready	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ready	cc
45	so	so	ADV	_	46 ready	advmod
46	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fond	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 shed	mark
48	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 ready	xcomp
49	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 shed	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Cadmus			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	consider	to-infinitive		teeth = tooth		as men	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute
3	conclude	past	Cadmus				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	human nature in teeth		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	teeth = tooth			of trumpets and weapons; fond property	tree rules
6	be		teeth = tooth not said here				tree rules
7	shed	to-infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here	blood			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source

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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