Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 38

In short, before he had time to think what a wonderful affair it was, he beheld an abundant harvest of what looked like human beings, armed with helmets and breastplates, shields, swords, and spears; and before they were well out of the earth, they brandished their weapons, and clashed them one against another, seeming to think, little while as they had yet lived, that they had wasted too much of life without a battle.

Who acts: Cadmus, abundant harvest, helmets · What happens: have, think, behold, look, be, brandish · To what, where: abundant harvest, earth, weapons, helmets

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, abundant harvest, helmets), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 short	parataxis
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 think	mark
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 time	acl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 think	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 affair	det
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 affair	amod
13	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 affair	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beheld	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	nsubj
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 short	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 harvest	det
20	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harvest	amod
21	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 looked	mark
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 harvest	acl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 beings	case
26	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beings	amod
27	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 looked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 armed	punct
29	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harvest	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 helmets	case
31	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 armed	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 breastplates	cc
33	breastplates	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 helmets	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shields	punct
35	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 helmets	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 swords	punct
37	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 helmets	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spears	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 spears	cc
40	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beheld	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 brandished	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 brandished	cc
43	before	before	SCONJ	_	50 earth	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 earth	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 earth	cop
46	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 earth	advmod
47	out	out	ADP	_	50 earth	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 earth	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 earth	det
50	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 brandished	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 earth	punct
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 brandished	nsubj
53	brandished	brandish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 short	parataxis
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 weapons	nmod:poss
55	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 brandished	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 clashed	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 clashed	cc
58	clashed	clash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 brandished	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 clashed	obj
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 clashed	obj
61	against	against	ADP	_	62 another	case
62	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	60 one	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 seeming	punct
64	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 clashed	advcl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 think	mark
66	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 seeming	xcomp
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 little	punct
68	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 think	ccomp
69	while	while	SCONJ	_	74 lived	mark
70	as	as	SCONJ	_	74 lived	mark
71	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 lived	nsubj
72	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 lived	aux
73	yet	yet	ADV	_	74 lived	advmod
74	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	66 think	advcl
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	79 wasted	punct
76	that	that	SCONJ	_	79 wasted	mark
77	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	79 wasted	nsubj:pass
78	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	79 wasted	aux
79	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	74 lived	advcl
80	too	too	ADV	_	81 much	advmod
81	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 wasted	obj
82	of	of	ADP	_	83 life	case
83	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 much	nmod
84	without	without	ADP	_	86 battle	case
85	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	86 battle	det
86	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 wasted	obl
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cadmus			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	behold	past	Cadmus	a abundant harvest			spears obl	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harvest=Stimulus
4	look	past	a abundant harvest				like human beings	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	helmets = helmet		the earth		well property	tree rules
6	brandish	past	helmets = helmet	helmets's weapons				tree rules
7	clash	past	helmets = helmet not said here	helmets = helmet				tree rules
8	seem	gerund	helmets = helmet not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
9	think speech: other	to-infinitive	helmets = helmet not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	live	past · perfect	helmets = helmet			yet		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	waste	past · perfect · passive		helmets = helmet			without a battle	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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