Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 54

These now rushed from different parts of the field, and, meeting in the middle of it, clashed their swords, and struck at each other's hearts as fiercely as ever.

What happens: rush, meet, clash, strike · To what, where: These, different parts, middle, swords, hearts

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: 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 rushed	nsubj:pass
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rushed	advmod
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 parts	case
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 parts	amod
6	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rushed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 clashed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 clashed	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meeting	punct
13	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 clashed	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meeting	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 middle	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meeting	punct
20	clashed	clash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	parataxis
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 swords	nmod:poss
22	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 clashed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 struck	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 struck	cc
25	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 clashed	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 each	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hearts	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 other	case
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 struck	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 fiercely	advmod
32	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	25 struck	advmod
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 fiercely	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	participle · passive	These	different parts of the field	now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from part=Trajectory
2	meet	gerund		the middle of middle			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clash	past	parts's swords				tree rules
4	strike	participle	each other's hearts			fiercely property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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