Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 42

But, since the young man had met with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth, the king feared that he would be equally successful in slaying the dragon.

Who acts: young man, king, brazen bulls · What happens: meet, fear, be, slay, matter · To what, where: dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, king, brazen bulls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 met	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct
3	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 met	aux
8	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 luck	case
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luck	amod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 luck	amod
12	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 matter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 luck	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 bulls	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bulls	det
18	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bulls	amod
19	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 matter	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 teeth	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teeth	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 dragon	case
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bulls	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feared	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feared	nsubj
28	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 met	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 successful	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 successful	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 successful	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 successful	cop
33	equally	equally	ADV	_	34 successful	advmod
34	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feared	ccomp
35	in	in	SCONJ	_	36 slaying	mark
36	slaying	slay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 successful	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dragon	det
38	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 slaying	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	the young man		with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with luck=Co-Agent
2	fear	past	the king			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	king		equally, successful property	tree rules
4	slay	gerund	king not said here	the dragon		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient
5	matter		the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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