Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 23
And there was the end of the army that had sprouted from the dragon's teeth.
Who acts: end · What happens: be, sprout · To what, where: army, teeth
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 (end), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 army | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sprouted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprouted | aux |
| 11 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 army | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 teeth | case |
| 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 | 11 sprouted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the end of the army | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sprout | past · perfect · passive | the army | the dragon's teeth | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
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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