Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 28
"I wish the dragon had him," muttered King Aetes to himself, "and the four-footed pedant, his schoolmaster, into the bargain.
Who acts: King Aetes, dragon · What happens: wish, have, mutter · To what, where: Cadmus · Speech: someone speaks here
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, dragon), 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 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 muttered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 muttered | punct |
| 10 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Aetes | compound |
| 12 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 muttered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 muttered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pedant | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pedant | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 footed | nummod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 four | punct |
| 21 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pedant | amod |
| 22 | pedant | pedant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 schoolmaster | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 schoolmaster | nmod:poss |
| 25 | schoolmaster | schoolmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pedant | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bargain | punct |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 bargain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bargain | det |
| 29 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pedant | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | King Aetes = aetes | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | the dragon | Cadmus | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | King Aetes | Cadmus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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