Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 49

"I should not so much care for the dragon," replied Jason, "if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls."

Who acts: much care · What happens: not care, reply, know, manage, lunge · To what, where: Jason, footed lunged bulls · 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 (much care), 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	_	7 care	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 care	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 care	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 care	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 care	amod
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 dragon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dragon	det
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 knew	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 knew	advmod
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 replied	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 manage	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 manage	mark
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knew	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bulls	det
25	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 footed	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 brazen	punct
27	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bulls	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bulls	cc
29	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lunged	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 fiery	punct
31	lunged	lunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 bulls	amod
32	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 manage	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not care in a quote	should	much care = care		for the dragon	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	much care	Jason		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jason=Topic
3	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	much care = care			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	manage in a quote	to-infinitive	much care = care not said here	the footed lunged bulls		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme
5	lunge in a quote	participle				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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