Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 109

Espying the two winged sons of the North Wind (who were disporting themselves in the moonlight, a few hundred feet aloft), Jason bade them tell the rest of the Argonauts to embark as speedily as possible.

Who acts: Espying, North Wind, sons · What happens: espy, wing, disport, tell, embark · To what, where: two, sons, moonlight, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Espying, North Wind, sons), 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	Espying	espy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 winged	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 two	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Espying	obj
4	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wind	det
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Wind	compound
9	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sons	nmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 disporting	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 disporting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 disporting	aux
13	disporting	disport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Wind	acl
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 disporting	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 moonlight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moonlight	det
17	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disporting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 aloft	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 feet	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 feet	amod
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 feet	nummod
22	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 aloft	nsubj
23	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wind	parataxis
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 aloft	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bade	punct
26	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bade	compound
27	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Wind	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bade	obj
29	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winged	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Argonauts	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Argonauts	det
34	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 rest	nmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 embark	mark
36	embark	embark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	ccomp
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 speedily	advmod
38	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	36 embark	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 possible	mark
40	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 speedily	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 winged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	espy	gerund		the two			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus
2	wing	past	Espying				tree rules
3	disport	past · progressive	the North Wind and Jason bade	sons = son	the moonlight		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	sons of the North Wind and Jason bade	the rest of the Argonauts			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient clause=Topic
5	embark not said to happen	to-infinitive				speedily property	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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