Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 52
Well, this memorable battle continued to rage until the ground was strewn with helmeted heads that had been cut off.
Who acts: memorable battle · What happens: continue, rage, strew, cut off · To what, where: ground, helmeted heads
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 (memorable battle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1018): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 continued | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 battle | det |
| 4 | memorable | memorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battle | amod |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rage | mark |
| 8 | rage | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | xcomp |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 strewn | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strewn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strewn | aux:pass |
| 13 | strewn | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rage | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | helmeted | helmeted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heads | amod |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 strewn | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 cut | aux:pass |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heads | acl:relcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | this memorable battle | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rage | to-infinitive | this memorable battle not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strew | past · passive | the ground | with helmeted heads | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | helmeted heads | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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