Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 3
For a while, the warriors stood flourishing their weapons, clashing their swords against their shields, and boiling over with the red-hot thirst for battle.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: stand, flourish, clash, boil over · To what, where: weapons, swords
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 (warriors), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warriors | det |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | flourishing | flourish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flourishing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clashing | punct |
| 12 | clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 flourishing | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 swords | nmod:poss |
| 14 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clashing | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 shields | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shields | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clashing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boiling | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boiling | cc |
| 20 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 flourishing | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 boiling | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 thirst | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thirst | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hot | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 red | punct |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thirst | amod |
| 27 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boiling | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 battle | case |
| 29 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thirst | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the warriors | while | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flourish | gerund | the warriors not said here | warriors's weapons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clash | gerund | the warriors not said here | warriors's swords | against warriors's shields | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | boil over | gerund | the warriors not said here | with the hot thirst for battle; over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with thirst=Instrument |
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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