Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 24
There was at first a deep silence, and then a rushing sound, or a noise like a long sigh, proceeding out of the interior of the earth.
Who acts: noise · What happens: be, rush, proceed · To what, where: rushing sound, deep silence, interior
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 (noise), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 silence | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 silence | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 silence | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 silence | amod |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sound | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sound | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 12 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sound | amod |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noise | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 noise | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sound | conj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 sigh | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sigh | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sigh | amod |
| 21 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noise | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 proceeding | punct |
| 23 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 noise | acl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 interior | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 interior | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 interior | det |
| 27 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proceeding | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 earth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 interior | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a rushing sound or a noise like a long sigh | a deep silence; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at silence=Location | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | proceed | gerund | a noise like a long sigh not said here | the interior of the earth | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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