Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 45

Immediately on feeling the blow, he seemed to take it for granted that somebody had struck him; and, uplifting his weapon, he smote his next neighbor a blow that cleft his helmet asunder, and stretched him on the ground.

Who acts: Cadmus, somebody, blow · What happens: feel, seem, take, grant, strike, uplift · To what, where: blow, Cadmus, weapon, next neighbor, helmet asunder, ground

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, somebody, blow), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 feeling	mark
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Immediately	fixed
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seemed	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blow	det
5	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feeling	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 granted	mark
13	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 take	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 struck	mark
15	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 struck	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 struck	aux
17	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 granted	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 struck	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 smote	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 smote	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	uplifting	uplift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 smote	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 weapon	nmod:poss
24	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uplifting	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 uplifting	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 smote	nsubj
27	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 neighbor	nmod:poss
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 neighbor	amod
30	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smote	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 blow	det
32	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smote	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 cleft	nsubj
34	cleft	cleft	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 blow	acl:relcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 asunder	nmod:poss
36	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asunder	compound
37	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cleft	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stretched	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stretched	cc
40	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smote	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stretched	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stretched	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feel	gerund	Cadmus not said here	the blow		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme
2	seem	past	Cadmus			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	take	to-infinitive	Cadmus not said here	blow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	grant	participle	Cadmus not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past · perfect	somebody	Cadmus		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
6	uplift	gerund	Cadmus not said here	Cadmus's weapon		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus weapon=Experiencer
7	smite	past	Cadmus	Cadmus's next neighbor		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus neighbor=Experiencer blow=Result
8	cleft	past	a blow	Cadmus's helmet asunder		tree rules
9	stretch	past	Cadmus not said here	Cadmus	the ground	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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