Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 63
The three brothers screamed manfully, likewise, and ran to the shore as fast as their legs would carry them, with Cadmus at their head.
Who acts: three brothers, legs · What happens: scream, run, carry · To what, where: brothers
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 (three brothers, legs), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | manfully | manfully | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 likewise | punct |
| 7 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ran | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fast | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Cadmus | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Cadmus | case |
| 24 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Cadmus | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the three brothers | likewise, manfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the three brothers not said here | to the shore result; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shore=Result | ||||
| 3 | carry | would | brothers's legs | brothers = brother | with Cadmus at brothers's head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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