Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 43
The same number were ordered to clamber upon Hercules, some with spades to dig his eyes out, and others with bundles of hay, and all manner of rubbish with which they intended to plug up his mouth and nostrils, so that he might perish for lack of breath.
Who acts: same number, eyes, number · What happens: order, clamber, dig out, intend, plug up, perish · To what, where: same number, Hercules, eyes, mouth, breath
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 (same number, eyes, number), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ordered | aux:pass |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 clamber | mark |
| 7 | clamber | clamber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Hercules | case |
| 9 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clamber | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hercules | punct |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 clamber | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 spades | case |
| 13 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clamber | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dig | mark |
| 15 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 clamber | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dig | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 dig | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 others | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 others | cc |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ordered | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 bundles | case |
| 23 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 others | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hay | case |
| 25 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bundles | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 manner | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 manner | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 manner | det |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 rubbish | case |
| 31 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 manner | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 intended | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 intended | nsubj |
| 35 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 rubbish | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 plug | mark |
| 37 | plug | plug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 intended | xcomp |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 plug | compound:prt |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 plug | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 nostrils | cc |
| 42 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 mouth | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 perish | punct |
| 44 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 48 perish | mark |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 so | fixed |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 perish | nsubj |
| 47 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 perish | aux |
| 48 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 plug | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 lack | case |
| 50 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 perish | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 breath | case |
| 52 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lack | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · passive | the same number | others with bundles of hay obl; all manner of rubbish obl | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | clamber not said to happen | to-infinitive | the same number not said here | Hercules | with spades | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dig out | to-infinitive | the same number not said here | Hercules's eyes | out property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 4 | intend | past | eyes = eye | with rubbish | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | plug up not said to happen | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | Hercules's mouth and nostrils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Destination | ||||
| 6 | perish | might | number | for lack of breath | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lack | breath | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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