Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 57

But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their pinions, and set off through the air in pursuit of the thieves, whom they at last overtook among some islands, after a chase of hundreds of miles.

Who acts: two sons, swords · What happens: draw, spread, set off, overtake, pursue, chase · To what, where: swords, pinions, air, thieves, hundreds

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 (two sons, swords), 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	_	9 drew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drew	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wind	det
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Wind	compound
8	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 swords	nmod:poss
11	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spread	punct
13	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 swords	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pinions	nmod:poss
15	pinions	pinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
18	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drew	conj
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 pursuit	case
24	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 thieves	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thieves	det
27	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pursuit	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whom	punct
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 overtook	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 whom	nsubj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 whom	nmod
33	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thieves	acl:relcl
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 islands	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 islands	det
36	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 overtook	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 chase	punct
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 chase	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 chase	det
40	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 hundreds	case
42	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 chase	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 miles	case
44	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hundreds	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the two sons of the North Wind	sons's swords				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	spread	present	sons's swords not said here	sons's pinions				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme
3	set off	infinitive	the two sons of the North Wind not said here		the air	after a chase of hundreds of miles	in pursuit of the thieves	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location
4	overtake	past		the thieves			among some islands	tree rules
5	pursue			the thieves				nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient
6	chase			hundreds of miles				nom chase «act transitive»: of=patient

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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