Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 1

There have been many other armies in the world that seemed to possess the same fierce nature with the one which had now sprouted from the dragon's teeth; but these, in the moonlit field, were the more excusable, because they never had women for their mothers.

Who acts: world, these, armies · What happens: have, be, seem, possess, sprout, not have · To what, where: many other armies, world, same fierce nature, one, teeth, women

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, these, armies), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 have	expl
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 armies	cop
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 armies	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 armies	amod
6	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 armies	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 world	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 possess	mark
13	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nature	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nature	amod
16	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nature	amod
17	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possess	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 one	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possess	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sprouted	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sprouted	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sprouted	advmod
24	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 one	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 teeth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dragon	det
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teeth	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 dragon	case
29	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sprouted	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 excusable	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 excusable	cc
32	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 excusable	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 field	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 field	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 field	det
36	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 field	amod
37	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 these	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 field	punct
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 excusable	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 excusable	det
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 excusable	advmod
42	excusable	excusable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 had	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
46	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	47 had	advmod
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
48	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 had	obj
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 mothers	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 mothers	nmod:poss
51	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 had	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present			there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		many other armies	the world			tree rules
3	seem	past	the world					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	possess	to-infinitive	the world not said here	the same fierce nature			with the one	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nature=Theme
5	sprout	past · perfect · passive		the one	the dragon's teeth	now		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
6	is	past	these				excusable property	tree rules
7	not have	past	armies = army	women			for armies's mothers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient

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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