Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 10
In a moment all the sons of the dragon's teeth appeared to take Jason for an enemy; and crying with one voice, "Guard the Golden Fleece!" they ran at him with uplifted swords and protruded spears.
Who acts: sons, Guard · What happens: appear, take, cry, run, uplift, protrude · To what, where: Jason, spears
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, Guard), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sons | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sons | nmod |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appeared | xcomp |
| 15 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 enemy | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 enemy | det |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 crying | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crying | cc |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 appeared | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 voice | nummod |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crying | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Guard | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Guard | punct |
| 27 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Fleece | det |
| 29 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Fleece | amod |
| 30 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Guard | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fleece | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Fleece | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 ran | nsubj |
| 34 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | parataxis |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 ran | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 swords | case |
| 38 | uplifted | uplift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 swords | amod |
| 39 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ran | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 protruded | cc |
| 41 | protruded | protrude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | conj |
| 42 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 protruded | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | all sons of the dragon's teeth | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | all sons of the dragon's teeth not said here | Jason | for a enemy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent jason=Theme for enemy=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | all sons of the dragon's teeth not said here | with one voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Guard and the Golden Fleece | at Jason; with uplifted swords | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | uplift | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | protrude | past | all sons of the dragon's teeth not said here | spears | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spear=Theme |
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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