Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 72
But Cadmus looked at them with a stern eye, and spoke to them in a tone of authority, so that they knew him for their master, and never again thought of disobeying his commands.
Who acts: Cadmus, fellows · What happens: look, speak, know, think, disobey, intonate · To what, where: fellows, tone, Cadmus, commands, authority · 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, fellows), 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 | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eye | det |
| 8 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | cc |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoke | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tone | det |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 authority | case |
| 19 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tone | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 knew | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 master | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 thought | cc |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 again | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 thought | advmod |
| 33 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 disobeying | mark |
| 35 | disobeying | disobey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 thought | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 commands | nmod:poss |
| 37 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 disobeying | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Cadmus | at fellows = fellow; with a stern eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | fellows = fellow | a tone of authority | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | past | fellows = fellow | Cadmus | for fellows's master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | participle | Cadmus not said here | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | disobey | gerund | Cadmus not said here | Cadmus's commands | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | intonate | authority | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | command | Cadmus | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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