Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 75

Like savage beasts, they would doubtless have done one another a mischief, if Cadmus had not kept watch over them, and quelled the fierce old serpent that lurked in their hearts, when he saw it gleaming out of their wild eyes.

Who acts: Cadmus, fierce old serpent, mischief · What happens: do, not keep, watch, quell, lurk, see · To what, where: workmen, Cadmus, fierce old serpent, hearts, mischief, wild 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 (Cadmus, fierce old serpent, mischief), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	3 beasts	case
2	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beasts	amod
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 done	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beasts	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
7	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 done	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 done	obj
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mischief	det
13	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 another	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 kept	mark
16	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 kept	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 kept	advmod
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 done	parataxis
20	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 kept	xcomp
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 watch	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quelled	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 quelled	cc
25	quelled	quell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 serpent	det
27	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 serpent	amod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 serpent	amod
29	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quelled	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lurked	nsubj
31	lurked	lurk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 serpent	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hearts	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hearts	nmod:poss
34	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lurked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 saw	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 quelled	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	obj
40	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 saw	xcomp
41	out	out	ADP	_	45 eyes	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 eyes	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
44	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eyes	amod
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 gleaming	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	would · perfect · passive		workmen = workman		like savage beasts	tree rules
2	not keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Cadmus			tree rules
3	watch	infinitive	Cadmus not said here			over workmen = workman	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location
4	quell	past		the fierce old serpent			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient
5	lurk	past	the fierce old serpent		workmen's hearts		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location
6	see	past	Cadmus	mischief			tree rules
7	gleam	gerund	mischief not said here		workmen's wild 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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