Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 60

Why, he set off, as swift as the wind, straight down to the seashore, scampered across the sand, took an airy leap, and plunged right in among the foaming billows.

Who acts: bull · What happens: set off, scamper, take, plunge · To what, where: seashore, sand, airy leap

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (bull), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 set	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	advcl
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swift	punct
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 swift	case
8	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seashore	punct
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 down	advmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	17 seashore	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 seashore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seashore	det
17	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wind	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scampered	punct
19	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seashore	acl
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 sand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sand	det
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scampered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 leap	det
26	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 leap	amod
27	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plunged	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plunged	cc
30	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 took	conj
31	right	right	ADV	_	36 billows	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 billows	case
33	among	among	ADP	_	36 billows	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 billows	det
35	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 billows	compound
36	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plunged	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set off	past	bull			as swift; as the wind and the seashore	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scamper	participle		the seashore not said here	the sand		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sand=Trajectory
3	take	past		a airy leap			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
4	plunge	participle				in the foaming billows	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in billow=Attribute

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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