Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 19

In an incredibly short space of time (almost as short, indeed, as it had taken them to grow up), all but one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth were stretched lifeless on the field.

What happens: take, grow up, stretch · To what, where: it, one

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: 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	_	5 space	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 space	det
3	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	_	4 short	advmod
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stretched	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 space	nmod
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 short	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 short	case
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 indeed	punct
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	11 short	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 taken	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 short	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grow	mark
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 taken	advcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 grow	compound:prt
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 short	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 one	nsubj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 one	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 stretched	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 heroes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heroes	det
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 teeth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dragon	det
33	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 teeth	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 dragon	case
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heroes	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stretched	aux:pass
37	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
38	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stretched	xcomp
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 field	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 field	det
41	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stretched	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive	it		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination
2	grow up	to-infinitive			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch	past · passive	one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth	on the field; in a short space of time; lifeless property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in space=Topic

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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