Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 46
After this, the two antagonists stood valiantly up to one another, and fought, sword to horn, for a long while.
Who acts: two antagonists · What happens: stand, fight · To what, where: sword
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two antagonists), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stood | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 antagonists | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 antagonists | nummod |
| 6 | antagonists | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | valiantly | valiantly | ADV | _ | 7 stood | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fought | cc |
| 15 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sword | punct |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fought | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 horn | case |
| 19 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 while | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 while | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 while | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 while | amod |
| 24 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fought | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the two antagonists | after this | up one; valiantly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the two antagonists not said here | sword | while | to horn | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Co-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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