Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 63

Still, however, the steel-headed arrows came whizzing among them; and, at last, happening to look upward, they beheld a large flock of birds, hovering and wheeling aloft, and shooting their feathers down upon the Argonauts.

Who acts: headed arrows, heroes · What happens: head, come, whiz, happen, look, behold · To what, where: large flock, feathers, Argonauts

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 (headed arrows, heroes), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arrows	det
6	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 headed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 steel	punct
8	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 arrows	amod
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	whizzing	whiz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 whizzing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 last	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happening	punct
20	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 last	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happening	advcl
23	upward	upward	ADV	_	22 look	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beheld	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beheld	nsubj
26	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flock	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flock	amod
29	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beheld	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 birds	case
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flock	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hovering	punct
33	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 beheld	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wheeling	cc
35	wheeling	wheel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 hovering	conj
36	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wheeling	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shooting	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 shooting	cc
39	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 feathers	nmod:poss
41	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shooting	obj
42	down	down	ADV	_	39 shooting	advmod
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 Argonauts	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Argonauts	det
45	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shooting	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	head	participle						vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the headed arrows			still	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whiz	gerund	the headed arrows not said here				among heroes = hero	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory
4	happen	gerund	the headed arrows not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive	the headed arrows not said here				upward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	behold	past	heroes = hero	a large flock of birds				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus
7	hover	gerund	heroes = hero not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wheel	gerund	heroes = hero not said here				aloft property	vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	shoot down	gerund	the headed arrows not said here	heroes's feathers	the Argonauts		down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent feather=Theme upon argonaut=Destination

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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