Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 43

"Cadmus," said the same voice which he had before heard, "throw a stone into the midst of the armed men."

Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: say, hear, throw · To what, where: same voice, stone, midst · Speech: someone speaks here

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cadmus	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voice	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voice	amod
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 heard	nsubj:pass
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	before	before	ADV	_	13 heard	advmod
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 voice	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 midst	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 midst	det
21	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 men	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
24	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 men	amod
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 midst	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cadmus	the same voice		tree rules
2	hear	past · perfect · passive		the same voice	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	throw in a quote	infinitive		a stone	into the midst of the armed men result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into midst=Result

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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