Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 84
It had grown up out of the earth in almost as short a time as it had taken the armed host to spring from the dragon's teeth; and what made the matter more strange, no seed of this stately edifice ever had been planted.
Who acts: palace · What happens: grow up, take, make, plant · To what, where: earth, it, matter, edifice
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 (palace), 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 | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 short | advmod |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 short | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 short | case |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 earth | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 short | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 host | det |
| 20 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 host | amod |
| 21 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 spring | case |
| 23 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 host | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 teeth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 28 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 host | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 made | nsubj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 matter | det |
| 34 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 strange | advmod |
| 36 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 made | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 seed | punct |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 seed | det |
| 39 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 edifice | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 edifice | det |
| 42 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 43 edifice | advmod |
| 43 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 seed | nmod |
| 44 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 planted | advmod |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 planted | aux |
| 46 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 planted | aux:pass |
| 47 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 edifice | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | palace | the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme host=Destination | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the matter | no seed of this edifice obl; strange property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material matter=Product | ||||
| 4 | plant | past · perfect · passive | this edifice not said here | ever | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» |
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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