Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 76

But, in course of time, they got accustomed to honest labor, and had sense enough to feel that there was more true enjoyment in living at peace, and doing good to one's neighbor, than in striking at him with a two-edged sword.

Who acts: sense, more true enjoyment · What happens: accustom, have, feel, be, live, do · To what, where: workmen, course, sense, more true enjoyment, peace

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 (sense, more true enjoyment), 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	_	10 accustomed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 course	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 course	case
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accustomed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accustomed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 accustomed	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 accustomed	aux:pass
10	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 labor	case
12	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 labor	amod
13	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accustomed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 accustomed	parataxis
17	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 enjoyment	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 enjoyment	cop
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 enjoyment	amod
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 enjoyment	amod
26	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feel	ccomp
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 living	mark
28	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 enjoyment	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 peace	case
30	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 living	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 doing	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 doing	cc
33	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 doing	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 neighbor	case
36	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 neighbor	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 one	case
38	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doing	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 striking	punct
40	than	than	SCONJ	_	42 striking	mark
41	in	in	SCONJ	_	42 striking	mark
42	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 doing	advcl
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 striking	obl
45	with	with	ADP	_	50 sword	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 sword	det
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 edged	nummod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 two	punct
49	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 sword	amod
50	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 striking	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accustom	past · passive		workmen = workman	course	time	to honest labor	tree rules
2	have	past		sense			enough property	tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive	sense not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	past	sense not said here	more true enjoyment				tree rules
5	live	gerund	more true enjoyment not said here		peace			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at peace=Location
6	do	gerund					to one's neighbor; good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	strike	gerund					at Cadmus; with a edged sword	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient with sword=Instrument
8	edge	participle						vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme

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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