Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 110

As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefore, and gird on their trusty swords, they came thronging to Iolchos, and clambered on board the new galley.

Who acts: dangers · What happens: furbish up, come, throng, clamber · To what, where: helmets, Iolchos, new galley

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 (dangers), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 furbish	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 furbish	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 furbish	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 furbish	aux
6	furbish	furbish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 furbish	compound:prt
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 helmets	nmod:poss
9	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 furbish	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shields	cc
11	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 helmets	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 therefore	punct
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 furbish	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gird	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gird	cc
16	gird	gird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furbish	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 swords	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 swords	nmod:poss
19	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 swords	amod
20	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gird	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 furbish	parataxis
24	thronging	throng	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Iolchos	case
26	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 thronging	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clambered	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clambered	cc
29	clambered	clamber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 came	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	34 galley	case
31	board	board	ADP	_	34 galley	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 galley	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 galley	amod
34	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clambered	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 furbish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	furbish up	could	dangers = danger	dangers's helmets and shields			gird on dangers's trusty swords obl; soon, therefore property	tree rules
2	come	past	dangers = danger					tree rules
3	throng	gerund	dangers = danger not said here		Iolchos			vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	clamber	participle	dangers = danger not said here			the new galley		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on galley=Trajectory

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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