Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 103

They made a clangor with their swords against their shields, and eyed one another fiercely; for they had come into this beautiful world, and into the peaceful moonlight, full of rage and stormy passions, and ready to take the life of every human brother, in recompense of the boon of their own existence.

Who acts: teeth, clangor · What happens: make, eye, come, take, recompense, exist · To what, where: clangor, one, beautiful world, life, boon

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 (teeth, clangor), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clangor	det
4	clangor	clangor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 swords	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 swords	nmod:poss
7	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clangor	nmod
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 shields	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shields	nmod:poss
10	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swords	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eyed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eyed	cc
13	eyed	eye	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eyed	obj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	fixed
16	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	13 eyed	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 world	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 world	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 world	amod
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 moonlight	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 moonlight	cc
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 moonlight	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 moonlight	det
30	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 moonlight	amod
31	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 moonlight	amod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 rage	case
35	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 passions	cc
37	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 passions	amod
38	passions	passion	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 rage	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ready	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ready	cc
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 full	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 take	mark
43	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 life	det
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 take	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 brother	case
47	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	49 brother	det
48	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 brother	amod
49	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 life	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 recompense	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 recompense	case
52	recompense	recompense	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 take	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 boon	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 boon	det
55	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 recompense	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 existence	case
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 existence	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 existence	amod
59	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 boon	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	teeth = tooth	a clangor		with teeth's swords against teeth's shields	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clangor=Product
2	eye	past	teeth = tooth not said here	one		fiercely property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	come	past · perfect	teeth = tooth		this beautiful world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
4	take	to-infinitive	a clangor not said here	the life of every human brother			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument life=Theme recompense=Destination
5	recompense			the boon of teeth's own existence			nom recompense «possession transitive»: of=patient
6	exist		teeth = tooth				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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