Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 102
Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.
Who acts: tooth, man · What happens: fall, stand, arm · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (tooth, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:2184): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fallen | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 stood | expl |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | armed | arm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 battle | case |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 armed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | a dragon's tooth | wherever property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a man | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | arm | participle | a man not said here | for battle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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