Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 35
Next appeared a vast number of bright sword blades, thrusting themselves up in the same way.
What happens: appear, thrust up · To what, where: vast number, pieces, same way
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: 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 2 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 number | amod |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 blades | case |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blades | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blades | compound |
| 9 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thrusting | punct |
| 11 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thrusting | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 thrusting | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrusting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a vast number of bright sword blades | next property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thrust up | gerund | pieces = piece | the same way | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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