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Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 15

The armed men were now so nigh that Jason could discern the fire flashing out of their enraged eyes, when he let fly the stone, and saw it strike the helmet of a tall warrior, who was rushing upon him with his blade aloft.

Who acts: armed men, fire, Jason, stone, tall warrior · What happens: be, flash, enrage, let, fly, see · To what, where: enraged eyes, stone, helmet

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 (armed men, fire, Jason, stone), 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

detamodnsubjcopadvmodadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxdetobjaclcasecasenmod:possamodoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisxcompdetobjpunctccconjobjxcompdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjauxaclcaseoblcasenmod:possoblamodpunctrootTheDETarmedADJmenNOUNwereAUXnowADVsoADVnighADVthatSCONJJasonPROPNcouldAUXdiscernVERBtheDETfireNOUNflashingVERBoutADPofADPtheirPRONenragedVERBeyesNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONletVERBflyVERBtheDETstoneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsawVERBitPRONstrikeVERBtheDEThelmetNOUNofADPaDETtallADJwarriorNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXrushingVERBuponADPhimPRONwithADPhisPRONbladeNOUNaloftADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mendet
2armedarmedADJDegree=Pos3 menamod
3menmanNOUNNumber=Plur11 discernnsubj
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 discerncop
5nownowADVPronType=Dem7 nighadvmod
6sosoADV_7 nighadvmod
7nighnighADV_11 discernadvmod
8thatthatSCONJ_11 discernmark
9JasonJasonPROPNNumber=Sing11 discernnsubj
10couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 discernaux
11discerndiscernVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 firedet
13firefireNOUNNumber=Sing11 discernobj
14flashingflashVERBVerbForm=Ger13 fireacl
15outoutADP_19 eyescase
16ofofADP_19 eyescase
17theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 eyesnmod:poss
18enragedenrageVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 eyesamod
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur14 flashingobl
20,,PUNCT_23 letpunct
21whenwhenADVPronType=Int23 letadvmod
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 letnsubj
23letletVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 discernparataxis
24flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf23 letxcomp
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 stonedet
26stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing24 flyobj
27,,PUNCT_29 sawpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 sawcc
29sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 letconj
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 sawobj
31strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 sawxcomp
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 helmetdet
33helmethelmetNOUNNumber=Sing31 strikeobj
34ofofADP_37 warriorcase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 warriordet
36talltallADJDegree=Pos37 warrioramod
37warriorwarriorNOUNNumber=Sing33 helmetnmod
38,,PUNCT_41 rushingpunct
39whowhoPRONPronType=Rel41 rushingnsubj
40wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 rushingaux
41rushingrushVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part37 warrioracl
42uponuponADP_43 himcase
43himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 rushingobl
44withwithADP_46 bladecase
45hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 bladenmod:poss
46bladebladeNOUNNumber=Sing41 rushingobl
47aloftaloftADJDegree=Pos46 bladeamod
48..PUNCT_11 discernpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1iscould · pastthe armed mendiscern, nigh propertytree rules
2flashgerundthe fire not said heremen's enraged eyesvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location
3enrageparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4letpastJasontree rules
5flyinfinitiveJason not said herethe stonevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme
6seepastJason not said herestonetree rules
7strikeinfinitivestone not said herethe helmet of a tall warriorvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient
8rushpast · progressivea tall warriorupon Jason; with Jason's bladevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory

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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