Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 88

But, in my view of the matter, the dragon is merely a pretty large serpent, who is not half so likely to snap me up at one mouthful as I am to cut off his ugly head, and strip the skin from his body.

Who acts: dragon, pretty large serpent, I, view, my · What happens: be, not be, snap up, cut off, strip, view · To what, where: pretty large serpent, half, me, one mouthful, ugly head, skin

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, pretty large serpent, I, view), 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	_	43 strip	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 view	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 view	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 view	nmod:poss
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 strip	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 matter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 serpent	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 serpent	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 serpent	cop
13	merely	merely	ADV	_	17 serpent	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 serpent	det
15	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 serpent	amod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 serpent	amod
17	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 half	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 half	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 half	advmod
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 serpent	parataxis
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 likely	advmod
24	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 half	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 snap	mark
26	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 likely	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 snap	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 snap	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 mouthful	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 mouthful	nummod
31	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 snap	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 cut	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 cut	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cut	aux
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cut	mark
36	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 strip	advcl
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 cut	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
39	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 head	amod
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cut	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 strip	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 strip	cc
43	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 skin	det
45	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 strip	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 body	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 body	nmod:poss
48	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 strip	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 strip	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the dragon	a pretty large serpent		merely property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	a pretty large serpent	half		likely nmod	tree rules
3	snap up	to-infinitive	a pretty large serpent not said here	me	one mouthful		tree rules
4	cut off	present	I	dragon's ugly head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	strip	infinitive	my view of the matter and a pretty large serpent	the skin	dragon's body		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Theme from body=Source
6	view		my	the matter			nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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