Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 50

The success of this scheme depended, it is true, on the doubtful point whether all the fifty heroes might not be snapped up, at so many mouthfuls, by the dragon.

Who acts: success, doubtful point · What happens: depend, be, not snap up · To what, where: fifty heroes, many mouthfuls

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 (success, doubtful point), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 success	det
2	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depended	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 scheme	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 scheme	det
5	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 success	nmod
6	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 depended	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 point	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 point	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 point	det
14	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 point	amod
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 true	parataxis
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 snapped	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 heroes	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heroes	det
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 heroes	nummod
20	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 snapped	nsubj:pass
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 snapped	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 snapped	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 snapped	aux:pass
24	snapped	snap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 point	acl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 snapped	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mouthfuls	punct
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 mouthfuls	case
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 many	advmod
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mouthfuls	amod
30	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 snapped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dragon	punct
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 dragon	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dragon	det
34	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mouthfuls	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 depended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	depend	past	the success of this scheme				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	success			true property	tree rules
3	not snap up	might · passive	the doubtful point not said here	all fifty heroes	many mouthfuls by the dragon		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: 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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