Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 34

Soon he perceived them to be the steel heads of spears, sprouting up everywhere like so many stalks of grain, and continually growing taller and taller.

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: perceive, be, sprout up, grow · To what, where: pieces, steel heads

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 perceived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	9 heads	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 heads	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heads	det
8	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	compound
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 perceived	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 spears	case
11	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heads	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sprouting	punct
13	sprouting	sprout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 perceived	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 sprouting	compound:prt
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 sprouting	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 stalks	case
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stalks	amod
19	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sprouting	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 grain	case
21	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stalks	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 growing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 growing	cc
24	continually	continually	ADV	_	25 growing	advmod
25	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 perceived	conj
26	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 growing	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 taller	cc
28	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 taller	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Cadmus	pieces = piece	soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is a	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	the steel heads	of spears	tree rules
3	sprout up	gerund	Cadmus not said here		like many stalks of grain; everywhere property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	grow	gerund	Cadmus not said here		continually, tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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