Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 21
But soon he felt a cold stream of air rushing out of it, with so much force that it shook the ringlets on his cheek.
Who acts: Delphi, air, stream · What happens: feel, rush out, shake · To what, where: cold stream, air, ringlets, cheek
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Delphi, air, stream), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stream | amod |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stream | nmod |
| 10 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 air | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 force | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 force | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 force | amod |
| 18 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 shook | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shook | nsubj |
| 21 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 force | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ringlets | det |
| 23 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shook | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 cheek | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ringlets | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Delphi | a cold stream of air | with much force; soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | |||
| 2 | rush out | gerund | air not said here | air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | stream | the ringlets | Delphi's cheek | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ringlet=Theme on cheek=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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