Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 58

The two winged youths blustered terribly at the Harpies (for they had the rough temper of their father), and so frightened them with their drawn swords, that they solemnly promised never to trouble King Phineus again.

Who acts: two, youths · What happens: wing, bluster, have, frighten, draw, promise · To what, where: Harpies, rough temper, youths, trouble, father

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, youths), 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	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 winged	nsubj
3	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blustered	nsubj
5	blustered	bluster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 winged	ccomp
6	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	5 blustered	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Harpies	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Harpies	det
9	Harpies	harpy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blustered	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 had	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blustered	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 temper	det
15	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 temper	amod
16	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 temper	nmod
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 frightened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 frightened	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 frightened	advmod
24	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 winged	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 frightened	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 swords	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 swords	nmod:poss
28	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 swords	amod
29	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 frightened	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 promised	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 promised	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 promised	nsubj
33	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	34 promised	advmod
34	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 frightened	conj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 trouble	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 trouble	mark
37	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 promised	obj
38	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 trouble	appos
39	Phineus	Phineus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 King	flat
40	again	again	ADV	_	34 promised	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 winged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	past	the two					tree rules
2	bluster speech: other	past	youths		the Harpies		terribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	youths = youth	the rough temper of Harpies's father				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient
4	frighten	past		youths = youth			with Harpies's drawn swords	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	draw	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	promise speech: promise	past	youths = youth	trouble		again	solemnly property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
7	temper			Harpies's father				nom temper «feeling 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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