Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 61

Some of them stuck in the ground, while others hit against their shields, and several penetrated their flesh.

Who acts: others, several · What happens: hit, penetrate · To what, where: shields, flesh

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 (others, several), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 stuck	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hit	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 hit	mark
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hit	nsubj
11	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	parataxis
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 shields	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shields	nmod:poss
14	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hit	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 penetrated	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 penetrated	cc
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 penetrated	nsubj
18	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hit	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 flesh	nmod:poss
20	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 penetrated	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	others			Argonauts's shields			vn bump-18.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shield=Location
2	penetrate	past	several	Argonauts's flesh					vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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