Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 36
A moment afterwards, the whole surface of the ground was broken by a multitude of polished brass helmets, coming up like a crop of enormous beans.
Who acts: multitude · What happens: break, polish, come up · To what, where: moment
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 (multitude), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 moment | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surface | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surface | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 surface | amod |
| 7 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surface | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 broken | aux:pass |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 multitude | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 multitude | det |
| 15 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broken | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 helmets | case |
| 17 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 helmets | amod |
| 18 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helmets | compound |
| 19 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 multitude | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coming | punct |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 broken | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 coming | compound:prt |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 crop | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crop | det |
| 25 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beans | case |
| 27 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beans | amod |
| 28 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crop | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | a multitude of polished brass helmets | a moment the whole surface of the ground | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come up | gerund | like a crop of enormous beans | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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