Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 71
On receiving this excellent counsel, Jason hurried back to his companions (who were far more dismayed than when they fought with the six-armed giants), and bade them strike with their swords upon their brazen shields.
Who acts: Jason, companions · What happens: receive, hurry back, be, fight, strike · To what, where: excellent counsel, companions, bade, brazen shields
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 (Jason, companions), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 receiving | mark |
| 2 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurried | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 counsel | det |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 counsel | amod |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 receiving | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 receiving | punct |
| 7 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | nsubj |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 hurried | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 companions | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hurried | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 dismayed | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dismayed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dismayed | cop |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 dismayed | advmod |
| 18 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 companions | acl:relcl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 when | case |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 fought | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fought | nsubj |
| 22 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dismayed | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 giants | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 giants | det |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 armed | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 six | punct |
| 27 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 giants | amod |
| 28 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fought | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 fought | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 strike | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bade | cc |
| 32 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strike | obl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bade | obj |
| 34 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurried | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 swords | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 swords | nmod:poss |
| 37 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strike | obl |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 shields | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 shields | nmod:poss |
| 40 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 shields | amod |
| 41 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strike | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | Jason not said here | this excellent counsel | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry back | past | Jason | Jason's companions | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to companion=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jason's companions | dismay property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fight | past | companions = companion | with the armed giants | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with giant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | strike | present | Jason not said here | bade | companions's brazen shields | with companions's swords | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shield=Location |
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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