Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 9

But King Cadmus, lest there should be too much of the dragon's tooth in his children's disposition, used to find time from his kingly duties to teach them their A B C--which he invented for their benefit, and for which many little people, I am afraid, are not half so grateful to him as they ought to be.

Who acts: King, I · What happens: be, use, find, teach, invent, not be · To what, where: King, kingly duties, B C, teeth

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), 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	_	22 used	cc
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 used	nsubj:pass
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 much	punct
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	8 be	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 be	expl
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 much	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 King	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 tooth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dragon	det
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tooth	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 dragon	case
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 disposition	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 disposition	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 children	case
20	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tooth	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct
22	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 used	advcl
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 duties	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 duties	nmod:poss
28	kingly	kingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 duties	amod
29	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 find	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 teach	mark
31	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 find	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 teach	iobj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 C	nmod:poss
34	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 C	det
35	B	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 C	compound
36	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 teach	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 invented	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 invented	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 invented	nsubj
40	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 C	acl:relcl
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 benefit	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 benefit	nmod:poss
43	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 invented	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 afraid	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 afraid	cc
46	for	for	ADP	_	50 people	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 people	nsubj
48	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 people	amod
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 people	amod
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 afraid	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 people	punct
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 afraid	nsubj
53	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 afraid	cop
54	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 used	advcl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 grateful	punct
56	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 grateful	cop
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 grateful	advmod
58	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	60 grateful	advmod
59	so	so	ADV	_	60 grateful	advmod
60	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 afraid	conj
61	to	to	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 grateful	obl
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 ought	mark
64	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 ought	nsubj
65	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 grateful	parataxis
66	to	to	PART	_	67 be	mark
67	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 ought	xcomp
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						of the dragon's tooth in King's children's disposition; much property	tree rules
2	use	participle · passive		King					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	find	to-infinitive				King's kingly duties	time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from duty=Source
4	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		teeth's B C	teeth = tooth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	invent	past	King	teeth's B C				for teeth's benefit	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for benefit=Beneficiary
6	is	present	I					for many little people; afraid property	tree rules
7	not is	present	I not said here		King			grateful, half property	tree rules
8	be	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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