Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 66
But Cadmus was wiser than these earth-born creatures, with the dragon's fierceness in them, and knew better how to use their strength and hardihood.
Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: be, bear, know, use · To what, where: strength · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wiser | cc |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wiser | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wiser | cop |
| 4 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 creatures | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 creatures | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 creatures | amod |
| 10 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wiser | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fierceness | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fierceness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fierceness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 dragon | case |
| 16 | fierceness | fierceness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 creatures | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fierceness | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wiser | conj |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 knew | xcomp |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 use | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 use | mark |
| 25 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 strength | nmod:poss |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 use | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hardihood | cc |
| 29 | hardihood | hardihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strength | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wiser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Cadmus | than this born creatures with the dragon's fierceness in teeth; wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | know | past | Cadmus not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | teeth's strength and hardihood | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
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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