Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 68
We are in great peril from a flock of birds, who are shooting us with their steel-pointed feathers.
Who acts: We, birds · What happens: be, shoot · To what, where: great peril, us
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 (We, birds), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 peril | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 peril | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 peril | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 peril | amod |
| 5 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 flock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flock | det |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peril | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flock | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shooting | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shooting | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shooting | aux |
| 14 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 birds | acl |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shooting | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feathers | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pointed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 steel | punct |
| 20 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feathers | amod |
| 21 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shooting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 peril | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | great peril | from a flock of birds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shoot | present · progressive | birds | us | with birds's pointed feathers | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Patient with feather=Instrument |
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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