Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 46
In an instant, those nearest the fallen warrior began to strike at one another with their swords, and stab with their spears.
Who acts: nearest · What happens: fall, begin, strike, stab · To what, where: instant
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 (nearest), 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 | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 instant | punct |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 nearest | det |
| 6 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 began | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warrior | det |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 warrior | amod |
| 9 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nearest | obj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 strike | mark |
| 12 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 strike | obl |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 one | fixed |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 swords | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 swords | nmod:poss |
| 18 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stab | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stab | cc |
| 21 | stab | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 spears | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 spears | nmod:poss |
| 24 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stab | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | begin | past | that nearest | a instant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | strike | to-infinitive | that nearest not said here | at one with weapons's swords | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stab | present | with weapons's spears | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spear=Instrument |
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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