Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 42

A body of twenty thousand archers marched in front, with their little bows all ready, and the arrows on the string.

Who acts: body · What happens: march · To what, where: arrows, front

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 body	det
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marched	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 archers	case
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 archers	nummod
6	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 body	nmod
7	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bows	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 bows	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bows	nmod:poss
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bows	amod
14	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marched	obl
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 ready	advmod
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bows	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arrows	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 arrows	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 arrows	det
20	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 marched	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 string	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 string	det
23	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrows	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	a body of thousand archers	the arrows on the string		front		with archers's little bows	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory

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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