Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 87
And the new king, with his five faithful followers at his heels, shouldering their pickaxes and marching in a rank (for they still had a soldier-like sort of behavior, as their nature was), ascended the palace steps.
Who acts: new king, king · What happens: shoulder, march, have, ascend, sort · To what, where: pickaxes, rank, like sort, nature, behavior
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 (new king, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shouldering | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouldering | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followers | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 followers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 followers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 followers | nummod |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 followers | amod |
| 10 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 heels | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouldering | punct |
| 15 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pickaxes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pickaxes | pickax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shouldering | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marching | cc |
| 19 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 shouldering | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rank | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rank | det |
| 22 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marching | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shouldering | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sort | det |
| 29 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 like | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 soldier | punct |
| 31 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sort | amod |
| 32 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 behavior | case |
| 34 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sort | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ascended | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 ascended | mark |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 nature | nmod:poss |
| 38 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ascended | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 ) | cop |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 nature | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ascended | punct |
| 42 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 had | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 steps | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 steps | compound |
| 45 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 ascended | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouldering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | gerund | the new king and Cadmus's five faithful followers at Cadmus's heels | king's pickaxes | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pickax=Theme | ||||
| 2 | march | gerund | the new king and Cadmus's five faithful followers at Cadmus's heels not said here | a rank | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rank=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | king | a like sort of behavior | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | |||
| 4 | ascend | participle · passive | king's nature | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sort | behavior | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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