Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 48

The archers, meanwhile, were stationed within bow shot, with orders to let fly at Hercules the instant that he stirred.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: station, let, fly, stir · To what, where: archers, instant, Hercules

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 (Hercules), 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	2 archers	det
2	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stationed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 archers	punct
4	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	2 archers	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 archers	punct
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stationed	aux:pass
7	stationed	station	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 shot	case
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shot	compound
10	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stationed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 orders	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 orders	case
13	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stationed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stationed	advcl
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Hercules	case
18	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fly	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 instant	det
20	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fly	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stirred	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stirred	nsubj
23	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fly	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stationed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	station	past · passive		the archers		within bow shot; with orders	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme
2	let	to-infinitive					tree rules
3	fly	infinitive		the instant	Hercules		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hercules=Location
4	stir	past	Hercules				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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