Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 8

The five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth grew very fond of these small urchins, and were never weary of showing them how to shoulder sticks, flourish wooden swords, and march in military order, blowing a penny trumpet, or beating an abominable rub-a-dub upon a little drum.

Who acts: five old soldiers, shoulder sticks, rub · What happens: grow, not be, show, flourish, blow, beat · To what, where: march, soldiers, wooden swords, penny trumpet, little drum

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five old soldiers, shoulder sticks, rub), 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	4 soldiers	det
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 soldiers	nummod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldiers	amod
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teeth	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dragon	case
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soldiers	nmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 fond	advmod
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 urchins	case
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 urchins	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 urchins	amod
16	urchins	urchin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fond	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weary	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weary	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weary	cop
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 weary	advmod
21	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grew	conj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 showing	mark
23	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 weary	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showing	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 to	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	23 showing	xcomp
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sticks	compound
28	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 to	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flourish	punct
30	flourish	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sticks	acl:relcl
31	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 swords	amod
32	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flourish	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 march	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 march	cc
35	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 order	case
37	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 order	amod
38	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 march	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 blowing	punct
40	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 grew	advcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 trumpet	det
42	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 trumpet	compound
43	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 blowing	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 beating	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 beating	cc
46	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 blowing	conj
47	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 dub	det
48	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 dub	amod
49	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dub	nsubj
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 dub	punct
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 dub	det
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 a	punct
53	dub	dub	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beating	obj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	57 drum	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 drum	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 drum	amod
57	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beating	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth	march in military order		fond property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	the five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth not said here			weary property	tree rules
3	show	gerund	the five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth not said here	soldiers = soldier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	flourish	present	shoulder sticks not said here	wooden swords			tree rules
5	blow	gerund	the five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth not said here	a penny trumpet			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient
6	beat	gerund	the five old soldiers of the dragon's teeth not said here		a little drum		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon drum=Location
7	dub		rub				tree rules

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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