Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 47

The next day, when the Argonauts were about setting sail, down came these terrible giants, stepping a hundred yards at a stride, brandishing their six arms apiece, and looking formidable, so far aloft in the air.

Who acts: Argonauts, next day · What happens: set, come, step, brandish, look · To what, where: sail, terrible giants, hundred yards, stride, six arms

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 (Argonauts, next day), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 setting	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 setting	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Argonauts	det
7	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 setting	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 setting	aux
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 setting	mark
10	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 day	conj
11	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 setting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 down	punct
13	down	down	ADV	_	10 setting	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 giants	det
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 giants	amod
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stepping	punct
19	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 yards	nummod
22	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stepping	obj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 stride	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stride	det
25	stride	stride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stepping	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brandishing	punct
27	brandishing	brandish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 stepping	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arms	nmod:poss
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 arms	nummod
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 brandishing	obj
31	apiece	apiece	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brandishing	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looking	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looking	cc
34	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 brandishing	conj
35	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looking	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 aloft	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 aloft	advmod
38	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 aloft	advmod
39	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 air	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 air	det
42	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 aloft	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the Argonauts	sail		down property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result
2	come	past	the next day	this terrible giants			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
3	step	gerund	the next day not said here	hundred yards	a stride		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location yard=Theme
4	brandish	gerund	the next day not said here	giants's six arms		apiece property	tree rules
5	look	gerund	the next day not said here			formidable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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