Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 62

The fifty heroes started up, and looked about them for the hidden enemy, but could find none, nor see any spot, on the whole island, where even a single archer could lie concealed.

Who acts: fifty heroes, single archer · What happens: start up, look, find, see, lie, conceal · To what, where: none, spot, whole island

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 (fifty heroes, single archer), 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	3 heroes	det
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 heroes	nummod
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 started	nsubj
4	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 started	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 started	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 enemy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 enemy	det
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 enemy	amod
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 started	parataxis
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 see	cc
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 find	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 spot	det
24	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 island	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 island	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 island	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 island	amod
29	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lie	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 lie	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	35 archer	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 archer	det
34	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 archer	amod
35	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lie	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 lie	aux
37	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 island	conj
38	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 lie	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start up	past	the fifty heroes				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	past	the fifty heroes not said here			about heroes = hero; for the hidden enemy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Location for enemy=Theme
3	find	could		none			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic
4	see	infinitive		any spot	the whole island		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus
5	lie	could	a single archer				tree rules
6	conceal	participle	a single archer not said here				vn concealment-16 «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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