Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 24
They are an unruly set of reprobates, those sons of the dragon's teeth; and unless you treat them suitably, they will fall upon you sword in hand.
Who acts: bulls, you · What happens: be, treat, fall, sword · To what, where: unruly set, bulls, hand
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 (bulls, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 4 | unruly | unruly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | amod |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 reprobates | case |
| 7 | reprobates | reprobate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sons | punct |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 sons | det |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reprobates | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 teeth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sons | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fall | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fall | cc |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 treat | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 treat | nsubj |
| 20 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fall | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 treat | obj |
| 22 | suitably | suitably | ADV | _ | 20 treat | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 treat | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fall | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fall | aux |
| 26 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 29 sword | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 sword | nsubj |
| 29 | sword | sword | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fall | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sword | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bulls = bull | a unruly set | of reprobates | tree rules | |||
| 2 | treat a condition, not said to happen | present | you | bulls = bull | suitably property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fall | future | bulls = bull | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sword | present | you | hand | tree rules |
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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