Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 51

Jason and his friends went boldly to meet them, slew a great many, and made the rest take to their heels, so that if the giants had had six legs apiece instead of six arms, it would have served them better to run away with.

Who acts: Jason, rest, giants · What happens: go, meet, slay, make, take, have · To what, where: giants, great many, rest, six legs

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 (Jason, rest, giants), 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	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 friends	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Jason	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slew	punct
11	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 many	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 many	amod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slew	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 heels	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heels	nmod:poss
23	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giants	det
29	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 made	conj
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 legs	nummod
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	obj
34	apiece	apiece	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	38 arms	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 arms	nummod
38	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 had	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 served	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 served	nsubj:pass
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 served	aux
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 served	aux
43	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 served	obj
45	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 served	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 run	mark
47	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 served	advcl
48	away	away	ADV	_	47 run	advmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	47 run	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jason and Jason's friends		boldly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	Jason and Jason's friends not said here	giants = giant		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	slay	past	Jason and Jason's friends not said here	a great many		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
4	make	past		the rest		tree rules
5	take	infinitive	the rest not said here		to giants's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
6	have	past · perfect	the giants	six legs	instead six arms; apiece property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
7	serve	would · perfect · passive		rest	good property	tree rules
8	run away	to-infinitive			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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