Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 27
Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as well as Cadmus did."
Who acts: I, Cadmus · What happens: manage, do · To what, where: quarrelsome sons
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 (I, 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 manage | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sons | det |
| 6 | quarrelsome | quarrelsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sons | amod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 manage | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 teeth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sons | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 did | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 16 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | can | I | the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth | perhaps property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | Cadmus | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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