Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 108

The four boys grew up to be tall young men, with sunburnt faces.

Who acts: four boys · What happens: grow up, be · To what, where: tall young men

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four boys), 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	3 boys	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boys	nummod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	10 men	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 men	cop
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 faces	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 faces	case
13	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faces	amod
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 men	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	the four boys						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		tall young men and sunburnt faces					tree rules

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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