Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 74

When the two armies joined battle, the cranes would rush forward, flapping their wings and stretching out their necks, and would perhaps snatch up some of the Pygmies crosswise in their beaks.

Who acts: two armies, joined battle · What happens: join, battle, rush, flap, stretch out, snatch up · To what, where: wings, necks

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two armies, joined battle), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 battle	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 armies	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 armies	nummod
4	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 battle	nsubj
5	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 battle	amod
6	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rush	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 battle	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cranes	det
9	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rush	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rush	aux
11	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 rush	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flapping	punct
14	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 rush	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flapping	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stretching	cc
18	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 flapping	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 stretching	compound:prt
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 necks	nmod:poss
21	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stretching	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 snatch	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 snatch	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 snatch	aux
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 snatch	advmod
26	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rush	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 snatch	compound:prt
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 crosswise	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Pygmies	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Pygmies	det
31	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 some	nmod
32	crosswise	crosswise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 snatch	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 beaks	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 beaks	nmod:poss
35	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crosswise	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rush	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	participle				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	battle		the two armies			tree rules
3	rush	would	joined battle		forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flap	gerund	joined battle not said here	battles's wings		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	stretch out	gerund	joined battle not said here	battles's necks		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
6	snatch up	would	joined battle not said here		perhaps property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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