Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 49
The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shriller; each soldier shouted a battle cry, and often fell with it on his lips.
Who acts: trumpeters, soldier · What happens: blow, shout, fall, blast · To what, where: blasts, battle cry, lips
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 (trumpeters, soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trumpeters | det |
| 2 | trumpeters | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 while | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 while | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trumpeters | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trumpeters | punct |
| 8 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blasts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blasts | blast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blew | obj |
| 11 | shriller | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 blew | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shriller | cc |
| 13 | shriller | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 shriller | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 shouted | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shouted | nsubj |
| 17 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blew | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cry | det |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cry | compound |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shouted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 fell | advmod |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shouted | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 lips | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lips | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fell | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the trumpeters and all while | trumpeters's blasts | shrill property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | each soldier | a battle cry | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | each soldier not said here | man's lips | with soldier; often property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lip=Location | |||
| 4 | blast | trumpeters = trumpeter | nom blast «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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