Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 6, sentence 5

At sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece, the nine and forty heroes gave a mighty shout, and Orpheus, striking his harp, sang a song of triumph, to the cadence of which the galley flew over the water, homeward bound, as if careering along with wings!

Who acts: forty heroes, galley, Golden Fleece, triumph · What happens: give, strike, sing, fly, career, sight · To what, where: mighty shout, harp, song, sight, water, glorious radiance

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forty heroes, galley, Golden Fleece, triumph), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sight	case
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sang	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 radiance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 radiance	det
5	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 radiance	amod
6	radiance	radiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sight	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Fleece	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fleece	det
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fleece	amod
10	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 radiance	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nine	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nine	det
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Fleece	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
15	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 heroes	nummod
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nine	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shout	det
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shout	amod
20	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Orpheus	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Orpheus	cc
23	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fleece	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 striking	punct
25	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sight	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 harp	nmod:poss
27	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 striking	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sight	punct
29	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 song	det
31	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sang	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 triumph	case
33	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 song	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 cadence	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 cadence	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cadence	det
37	cadence	cadence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sang	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 flew	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 galley	det
41	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	nsubj
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 cadence	acl:relcl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 water	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 homeward	punct
47	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 water	conj
48	bound	bound	ADV	_	47 homeward	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 careering	punct
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 careering	mark
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 careering	mark
52	careering	career	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 flew	advcl
53	along	along	ADV	_	52 careering	advmod
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 wings	case
55	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 careering	obl
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	forty heroes	a mighty shout			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme
2	strike	gerund		Orpheus's harp			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Patient
3	sing speech: express	past		a song of triumph	sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece and Orpheus		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	fly	past	the galley		the water and homeward	of the cadence	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location
5	career	gerund	the galley not said here			with wings; along property	tree rules
6	sight			the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece and Orpheus			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	radiate		the Golden Fleece and Orpheus				nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent
8	sing		triumph				nom song «communication 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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