Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 101

Next were seen their bright breastplates; in every right hand there was a sword or a spear, and on each left arm a shield; and when this strange crop of warriors had but half grown out of the earth, they struggled--such was their impatience of restraint--and, as it were, tore themselves up by the roots.

Who acts: strange crop, helmets, crop · What happens: see, be, leave, have, grow out, struggle · To what, where: bright breastplates, sword, right hand, earth, such impatience, helmets

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 (strange crop, helmets, crop), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 seen	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux:pass
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breastplates	nmod:poss
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breastplates	amod
6	breastplates	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seen	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sword	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hand	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sword	obl
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sword	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sword	det
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 spear	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spear	det
18	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sword	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shield	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shield	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 arm	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 arm	det
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 arm	amod
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shield	compound
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 shield	det
26	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sword	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 had	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 had	advmod
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 crop	det
31	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 crop	amod
32	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 warriors	case
34	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crop	nmod
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	parataxis
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 grown	cc
37	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 grown	advmod
38	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 had	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 earth	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 earth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 earth	det
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grown	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 struggled	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 struggled	nsubj
45	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	conj
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 impatience	punct
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 impatience	amod
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 impatience	cop
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 impatience	nmod:poss
50	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 struggled	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 restraint	case
52	restraint	restraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 impatience	nmod
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	60 tore	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 tore	cc
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 and	punct
56	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 were	mark
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 were	nsubj
58	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 tore	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 were	punct
60	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 had	conj
61	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	60 tore	obj
62	up	up	ADP	_	60 tore	compound:prt
63	by	by	ADP	_	65 roots	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 roots	det
65	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 tore	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		helmets's bright breastplates		next property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: breastplate=Stimulus
2	is a	past		a sword or a spear and a arm shield	every right hand		tree rules
3	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	this strange crop of warriors				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	grow out	participle	this strange crop of warriors not said here	the earth		half property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location earth=Theme
6	struggle	past	helmets = helmet				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		helmets's such impatience		of restraint	tree rules
8	be	past	crop				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tore up	past	this strange crop of warriors not said here	helmets = helmet		by the roots	tree rules

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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