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Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 9

At last, the front rank caught sight of Jason, who, beholding the flash of so many weapons in the moonlight, had thought it best to draw his sword.

Who acts: last front rank, sight, many weapons · What happens: catch, behold, think, draw, sight, flash · To what, where: sight, flash, sword, Jason

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 (last front rank, sight, many weapons), 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

caseamodpunctdetamodnsubjobjcasenmodpunctnsubjpunctconjdetobjcaseadvmodamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctauxparataxisexplccompmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctrootAtADPlastADJ,PUNCTtheDETfrontADJrankNOUNcaughtVERBsightNOUNofADPJasonPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTbeholdingVERBtheDETflashNOUNofADPsoADVmanyADJweaponsNOUNinADPtheDETmoonlightNOUN,PUNCThadAUXthoughtVERBitPRONbestADJtoPARTdrawVERBhisPRONswordNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos6 rankamod
3,,PUNCT_2 lastpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 rankdet
5frontfrontADJDegree=Pos6 rankamod
6rankrankNOUNNumber=Sing7 caughtnsubj
7caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing7 caughtobj
9ofofADP_10 Jasoncase
10JasonJasonPROPNNumber=Sing8 sightnmod
11,,PUNCT_14 beholdingpunct
12whowhoPRONPronType=Rel14 beholdingnsubj
13,,PUNCT_14 beholdingpunct
14beholdingbeholdVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 sightconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 flashdet
16flashflashNOUNNumber=Sing14 beholdingobj
17ofofADP_20 weaponscase
18sosoADV_19 manyadvmod
19manymanyADJDegree=Pos20 weaponsamod
20weaponsweaponNOUNNumber=Plur16 flashnmod
21ininADP_23 moonlightcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 moonlightdet
23moonlightmoonlightNOUNNumber=Sing20 weaponsnmod
24,,PUNCT_26 thoughtpunct
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 thoughtaux
26thoughtthinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 caughtparataxis
27ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 bestexpl
28bestgoodADJDegree=Sup26 thoughtccomp
29totoPART_30 drawmark
30drawdrawVERBVerbForm=Inf26 thoughtxcomp
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 swordnmod:poss
32swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing30 drawobj
33..PUNCT_7 caughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpastthe last front ranksight of Jasonvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2beholdgerundsight of Jasonthe flash of many weapons in the moonlightvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus
3think speech: otherpast · perfectvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4drawto-infinitiveJason's swordvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5sightJasonnom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6flashmany weapons in the moonlightnom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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