Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 36
But again the sighing gust of air grew into something like a hoarse voice.
Who acts: sighing gust · What happens: sigh, grow · To what, where: something
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 (sighing gust), 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 | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 gust | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gust | det |
| 4 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gust | amod |
| 5 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gust | nmod |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 something | case |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 grew | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 something | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | grow | past | the sighing gust of air | into something result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into something=Result |
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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