Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 18

The confusion spread through the host, so that it seemed scarcely a moment before they were all hacking, hewing, and stabbing at one another, lopping off arms, heads, and legs and doing such memorable deeds that Jason was filled with immense admiration; although, at the same time, he could not help laughing to behold these mighty men punishing each other for an offense which he himself had committed.

Who acts: confusion, it, men, legs, Jason, mighty men · What happens: spread, seem, hack, hew, stab, lop off · To what, where: host, arms, such memorable deeds, Jason, mighty men, each

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 (confusion, it, men, legs), 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 confusion	det
2	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 host	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 seemed	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	parataxis
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	11 seemed	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	obl:unmarked
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 hacking	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hacking	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hacking	aux
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 hacking	advmod
19	hacking	hack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seemed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hewing	punct
21	hewing	hew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 hacking	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stabbing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stabbing	cc
24	stabbing	stab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 hacking	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stabbing	obl
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	fixed
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lopping	punct
29	lopping	lop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 stabbing	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 lopping	compound:prt
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lopping	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heads	punct
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 arms	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 doing	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 doing	cc
36	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 doing	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 doing	cc
38	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spread	advcl
39	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 deeds	amod
40	memorable	memorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 deeds	amod
41	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 doing	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 filled	mark
43	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 filled	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 filled	aux:pass
45	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 deeds	acl
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 admiration	case
47	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 admiration	amod
48	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 filled	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 help	punct
50	although	although	SCONJ	_	60 help	mark
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 although	punct
52	at	at	ADP	_	55 time	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 time	det
54	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 time	amod
55	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 help	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 time	punct
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 help	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 help	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 help	advmod
60	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	advcl
61	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	60 help	xcomp
62	to	to	PART	_	63 behold	mark
63	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 laughing	xcomp
64	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	66 men	det
65	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 men	amod
66	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 behold	obj
67	punishing	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	66 men	acl
68	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	67 punishing	obj
69	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 each	fixed
70	for	for	ADP	_	72 offense	case
71	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 offense	det
72	offense	offense	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 punishing	obl
73	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	77 committed	nsubj:pass
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 committed	nsubj:pass
75	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	74 he	nmod:unmarked
76	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 committed	aux
77	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	72 offense	acl:relcl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the confusion		the host			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through host=Location
2	seem	past	it			moment	scarcely property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	hack	past · progressive	men = man				all property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	hew	gerund	men = man not said here					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	stab	gerund					at one	vn poke-19-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
6	lop off	gerund		arms and heads				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
7	do	gerund	legs	such memorable deeds				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
8	fill	past · passive		Jason			with immense admiration	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with admiration=Instrument
9	not help	could	Jason			time		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	laugh not said to happen	gerund	Jason not said here					tree rules
11	behold	to-infinitive	Jason not said here	this mighty men				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
12	punish	gerund	this mighty men not said here	each			for a offense	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent each=Patient for offense=Theme
13	commit	past · perfect · passive		a offense				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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