Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 77

It may not be too much to hope that the rest of mankind will by and by grow as wise and peaceable as these five earth-begrimed warriors, who sprang from the dragon's teeth.

Who acts: sense, five begrimed warriors · What happens: not be, hope, grow, begrime, spring · To what, where: teeth

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, five begrimed warriors), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 much	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 much	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 much	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hope	mark
8	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 much	acl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 will	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 will	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mankind	case
13	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	nmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hope	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	14 will	flat
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grow	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 grow	case
18	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hope	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 wise	case
20	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grow	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 peaceable	cc
22	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wise	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	29 warriors	case
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 warriors	det
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 warriors	nummod
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begrimed	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 earth	punct
28	begrimed	begrime	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 warriors	amod
29	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 peaceable	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sprang	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sprang	nsubj
32	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 warriors	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	37 teeth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dragon	det
35	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 teeth	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 dragon	case
37	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sprang	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	may	sense		much property	tree rules
2	hope	to-infinitive				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	grow	present			as wise	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begrime	participle				tree rules
5	spring	past	this five begrimed warriors	the dragon's teeth		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tooth=Trajectory

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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