Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 18
But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growing red in the face, without making the Argo start an inch.
Who acts: fifty heroes, growing, Argo · What happens: push, strain, grow, make, start · To what, where: face, Argo, inch
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty heroes, growing, Argo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushing | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 pushing | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pushing | aux |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 heroes | det |
| 5 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 heroes | nummod |
| 6 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pushing | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushing | punct |
| 8 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 straining | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 straining | cc |
| 11 | straining | strain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pushing | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 making | cc |
| 14 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 making | csubj |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 growing | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 growing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 making | mark |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pushing | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Argo | det |
| 23 | Argo | Argo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 making | xcomp |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 inch | det |
| 26 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past · progressive | this fifty heroes | here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strain | gerund | this fifty heroes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | the face | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | growing | the Argo | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | start | infinitive | the Argo not said here | a inch | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=Eventuality |
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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