Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 89
After this feat, the dragon seemed sensible that some other living creature was within reach, on which he felt inclined to finish his meal.
Who acts: dragon, some, other living creature, antelope · What happens: seem, creature, be, feel, finish · To what, where: meal
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 (dragon, some, other living creature, antelope), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feat | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 feat | det |
| 3 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feat | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reach | amod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 creature | mark |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 creature | nsubj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 creature | compound |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reach | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reach | cop |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 reach | case |
| 16 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 felt | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seemed | conj |
| 22 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 finish | mark |
| 24 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 inclined | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 meal | nmod:poss |
| 26 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finish | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the dragon | after this feat | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | creature | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | other living creature | within sensible reach | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | antelope | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | finish | to-infinitive | antelope not said here | antelope's meal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality |
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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