Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 9
Running towards the tuft of trees, he beheld the head and fiery eyes of an immense serpent or dragon, with the widest jaws that ever a dragon had, and a vast many rows of horribly sharp teeth.
Who acts: tuft, dragon · What happens: run, behold, have · To what, where: tuft, head, widest jaws
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 (tuft, dragon), 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 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 beheld | advcl |
| 2 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 tuft | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tuft | det |
| 4 | tuft | tuft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tuft | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Running | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beheld | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eyes | cc |
| 13 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 head | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 serpent | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 17 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 serpent | amod |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 dragon | cc |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 serpent | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 jaws | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 jaws | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jaws | det |
| 24 | widest | wide | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 jaws | amod |
| 25 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beheld | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | obj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 dragon | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 jaws | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rows | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rows | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 rows | det |
| 34 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rows | amod |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rows | amod |
| 36 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beheld | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 teeth | case |
| 38 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 40 teeth | advmod |
| 39 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 teeth | amod |
| 40 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rows | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | tuft not said here | the tuft of trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards tuft=Destination | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | tuft | the head and fiery eyes of a immense serpent or dragon | with the widest jaws; a vast many rows of sharp teeth obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | past | a dragon | the widest jaws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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