Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 84

Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air, he caught one of them by the horn, and the other by his screwed-up tail, and held them in a gripe like that of an iron vice, one with his right hand, the other with his left.

Who acts: brazen brutes, Jason, iron vice · What happens: fancy, toss, catch, screw up, hold, gripe · To what, where: brutes, Jason, air, one, gripe

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 (brazen brutes, Jason, iron vice), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 fancied	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 fancied	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brutes	det
4	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brutes	amod
5	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fancied	nsubj
6	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 fancied	obj
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fancied	xcomp
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 tossing	mark
10	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sure	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tossing	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tossing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caught	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	nsubj
17	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancied	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 caught	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 horn	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horn	det
23	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 other	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 other	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 caught	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	33 tail	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tail	nmod:poss
30	screwed	screw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 tail	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 up	punct
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 screwed	compound:prt
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 other	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 held	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 held	cc
36	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fancied	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 held	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 gripe	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 gripe	det
40	gripe	gripe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 held	obl
41	like	like	ADP	_	42 that	case
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 gripe	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 vice	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 vice	det
45	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 vice	compound
46	vice	vice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gripe	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 one	punct
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 vice	appos
49	with	with	ADP	_	52 hand	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hand	nmod:poss
51	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 hand	amod
52	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 one	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 other	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 other	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 one	parataxis
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 left	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 left	nmod:poss
58	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 other	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	the brazen brutes	brutes = brute		sure property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
2	toss	gerund	the brazen brutes not said here	Jason	the air		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient into air=Recipient
3	catch	past	Jason	one of brutes		by the horn	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	screw up	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	hold	past	the brazen brutes not said here	brutes = brute	a gripe like that of a iron vice		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in gripe=Location
6	gripe		a iron vice			like that	nom gripe «communication intransitive»: like=obl of=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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