Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 23

"After taming the fiery bulls," continued King Aetes, who was determined to scare Jason if possible, "you must yoke them to a plow, and must plow the sacred earth in the Grove of Mars, and sow some of the same dragon's teeth from which Cadmus raised a crop of armed men.

Who acts: King Aetes, you, Cadmus · What happens: tame, continue, be, scare, yoke, plow · To what, where: fiery bulls, King Aetes, Jason, bulls, sacred earth, Grove

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 (King Aetes, you, Cadmus), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 taming	punct
2	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 taming	mark
3	taming	tame	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 continued	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bulls	det
5	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bulls	amod
6	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taming	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 taming	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 taming	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Aetes	compound
11	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 determined	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 determined	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 determined	cop
15	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Aetes	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 scare	mark
17	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 determined	xcomp
18	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 scare	obj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 possible	mark
20	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scare	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 yoke	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 yoke	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 yoke	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 yoke	aux
25	yoke	yoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 continued	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 yoke	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 plow	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 plow	det
29	plow	plow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yoke	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 plow	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 plow	cc
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 plow	aux
33	plow	plow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 yoke	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
35	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earth	amod
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 plow	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 Grove	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Grove	det
39	Grove	Grove	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 earth	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Mars	case
41	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Grove	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sow	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sow	cc
44	sow	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 continued	conj
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 sow	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	51 teeth	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 dragon	det
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dragon	amod
49	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 teeth	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 dragon	case
51	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 some	nmod
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 which	case
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 raised	obl
54	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 raised	nsubj
55	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 teeth	acl:relcl
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 crop	det
57	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 raised	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 men	case
59	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 men	amod
60	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 crop	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tame in a quote	gerund		the fiery bulls			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient
2	continue	past		King Aetes			tree rules
3	is	past	King Aetes			determined property	tree rules
4	scare	to-infinitive	King Aetes not said here	Jason			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jason=Experiencer
5	yoke in a quote	must	you	bulls = bull		to a plow	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to plow=Co-Patient
6	plow in a quote	must	you not said here	the sacred earth	the Grove of Mars		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent earth=Initial_Location
7	sow in a quote	present		some			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent some=Theme
8	raise in a quote	past	Cadmus	a crop of armed men	the same dragon's teeth		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crop=Theme from which=Destination

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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