Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 1

"We will none of us turn back!" cried his nine and forty brave comrades. "

Who acts: We, nine brave comrades · What happens: turn back, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, nine brave comrades), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 turn	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 none	nmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 comrades	nmod:poss
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 comrades	nummod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forty	cc
15	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 nine	conj
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comrades	amod
17	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back in a quote	future	We						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	his nine brave comrades						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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