Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 107
At this news, the adventurous youths, all over the country, began to bestir themselves.
Who acts: adventurous youths · What happens: begin, bestir · To what, where: news, dangers
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventurous youths), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youths | det |
| 6 | adventurous | adventurous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 youths | amod |
| 7 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 began | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 country | punct |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 country | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 youths | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 youths | punct |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bestir | mark |
| 16 | bestir | bestir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 bestir | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the adventurous youths and the country | this news | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bestir | to-infinitive | the adventurous youths and the country not said here | dangers = danger | 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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