Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 53

At that moment the twenty thousand archers twanged their bowstrings, and the arrows came whizzing, like so many winged mosquitoes, right into the face of Hercules.

Who acts: thousand archers, arrows · What happens: twang, come, whiz, wing · To what, where: bowstrings, face

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 (thousand archers, arrows), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twanged	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 archers	det
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thousand	compound
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 archers	nummod
7	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twanged	nsubj
8	twanged	twang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bowstrings	nmod:poss
10	bowstrings	bowstring	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twanged	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arrows	det
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twanged	conj
16	whizzing	whiz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mosquitoes	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 mosquitoes	case
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mosquitoes	amod
21	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 mosquitoes	amod
22	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 whizzing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 face	punct
24	right	right	ADV	_	27 face	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 face	det
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whizzing	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Hercules	case
29	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 face	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 twanged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twang	past	the thousand archers	archers's bowstrings		moment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowstring=Topic
2	come	past	the arrows					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	whiz	gerund	the arrows not said here		the face of Hercules		like many winged mosquitoes	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into face=Destination
4	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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