Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 53
Of all the thousands that began the fight, there were only five left standing.
Who acts: thousands, five · What happens: begin, be, leave, stand · To what, where: fight
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 (thousands, five), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thousands | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 thousands | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thousands | det |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thousands | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thousands | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 five | advmod |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 left | nsubj |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 were | ccomp |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 left | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | all thousands | the fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | of all thousands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | five | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | five not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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