Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 64
These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented them.
What happens: head, torment · To what, where: headed arrows
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 feathers | det |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tormented | obl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tormented | aux:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 arrows | det |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 headed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 steel | punct |
| 7 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrows | amod |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tormented | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tormented | aux |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 tormented | advmod |
| 12 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tormented | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tormented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | torment | past · perfect · passive | the headed arrows | this feathers obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result |
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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