Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 60

At one time they landed on an island, and were reposing on the grass, when they suddenly found themselves assailed by what seemed a shower of steel-headed arrows.

Who acts: Argonauts · What happens: land, repose, find, assail, seem, head · To what, where: island, grass, Argonauts, shower

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 time	nummod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 landed	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 landed	nsubj
5	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 landed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reposing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reposing	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reposing	aux
12	reposing	repose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 landed	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reposing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 found	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 found	advmod
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 landed	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 found	obj
22	assailed	assail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 found	xcomp
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 seemed	mark
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 assailed	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shower	det
27	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 arrows	case
29	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 headed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 steel	punct
31	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 arrows	amod
32	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shower	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	Argonauts = argonaut		a island	time		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination
2	repose	past · progressive	Argonauts = argonaut not said here		the grass			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location
3	find	past	Argonauts = argonaut	Argonauts = argonaut			suddenly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
4	assail	participle	Argonauts = argonaut not said here					vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	seem	past		a shower of headed arrows				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shower=Attribute
6	head	participle						vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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