Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 16

The stone glanced from this man's helmet to the shield of his nearest comrade, and thence flew right into the angry face of another, hitting him smartly between the eyes.

Who acts: stone · What happens: glance, fly, hit · To what, where: angry face, Jason, eyes

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glanced	nsubj
3	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 helmet	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helmet	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glanced	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shield	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shield	det
11	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glanced	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 comrade	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 comrade	nmod:poss
14	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 comrade	amod
15	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shield	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flew	cc
18	thence	thence	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glanced	parataxis
20	right	right	ADV	_	24 face	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 face	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 another	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 face	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hitting	punct
28	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 flew	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hitting	obj
30	smartly	smartly	ADV	_	28 hitting	advmod
31	between	between	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 eyes	det
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hitting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glance	past	the stone			to the shield of Jason's nearest comrade; from this man's helmet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from helmet=Theme
2	fly	past		the angry face of another		thence property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme
3	hit	gerund		Jason	the eyes	smartly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme between eye=Destination

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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