Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 94
A crop of armed men never fails to spring up, when the dragon's teeth have been sown."
Who acts: crop · What happens: not fail, spring up, sow · To what, where: teeth
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 (crop), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crop | det |
| 2 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fails | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crop | nmod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 fails | advmod |
| 7 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spring | mark |
| 9 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fails | xcomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 spring | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sown | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 sown | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 dragon | case |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sown | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 sown | aux:pass |
| 19 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spring | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fails | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | present | a crop of armed men | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | spring up | to-infinitive | a crop of armed men not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sow | present · perfect · passive | the dragon's teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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