Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 44

So Cadmus seized a large stone, and flinging it into the middle of the earth army, saw it strike the breastplate of a gigantic and fierce-looking warrior.

Who acts: Cadmus, stone · What happens: seize, fling, see, strike, look · To what, where: large stone, stone, middle, breastplate

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, stone), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 seized	advmod
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flinging	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flinging	cc
9	flinging	fling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seized	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flinging	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flinging	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 army	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 army	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 army	compound
17	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	obj
21	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 saw	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 breastplate	det
23	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strike	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	31 warrior	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 warrior	det
26	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looking	compound
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fierce	cc
28	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gigantic	conj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fierce	punct
30	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 warrior	amod
31	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breastplate	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seize	past	Cadmus	a large stone		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	fling	gerund	Cadmus not said here	stone	the middle of the earth army	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into middle=Destination
3	see	past	Cadmus not said here	stone		tree rules
4	strike	infinitive	stone not said here	the breastplate of a looking warrior		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breastplate=Patient
5	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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