Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 56
"On the contrary," answered Jason, "he is very angry with me for taming the brazen bulls and sowing the dragon's teeth.
Who acts: Jason · What happens: answer, be, tame, sow · To what, where: contrary, brazen bulls, teeth · 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 (Jason), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 contrary | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 contrary | det |
| 4 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrary | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrary | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 angry | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 angry | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 angry | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 angry | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 taming | mark |
| 18 | taming | tame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 angry | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bulls | det |
| 20 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bulls | amod |
| 21 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taming | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sowing | cc |
| 23 | sowing | sow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 taming | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dragon | det |
| 25 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 dragon | case |
| 27 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sowing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jason | the contrary | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Jason | with Jason; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tame in a quote | gerund | Jason not said here | the brazen bulls | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sow in a quote | gerund | Jason not said here | the dragon's teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=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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