Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 58
She gave him a basket, in which were the dragon's teeth, just as they had been pulled out of the monster's jaws by Cadmus, long ago.
Who acts: heart, basket, Cadmus · What happens: give, be, pull out · To what, where: basket, man, teeth, jaws
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 (heart, basket, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 teeth | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 teeth | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 teeth | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 basket | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulled | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 pulled | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pulled | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 pulled | aux:pass |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 jaws | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 jaws | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 monster | det |
| 24 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 monster | case |
| 26 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pulled | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Cadmus | case |
| 28 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pulled | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ago | punct |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 ago | advmod |
| 31 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 gave | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | heart | a basket and the dragon's teeth | man | ago property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient basket=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a basket and the dragon's teeth | the dragon's teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pull out | past · perfect · passive | Cadmus | basket | the monster's jaws | 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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