Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 43

He put other questions, but received no answer; only the gust of wind sighed continually out of the cavity, and blew the withered leaves rustling along the ground before it.

Who acts: home, gust, withered leaves · What happens: put, receive, sigh, blow, wither, rustle · To what, where: other questions, answer, cavity, withered leaves, ground

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 (home, gust, withered leaves), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 questions	amod
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 received	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 received	cc
7	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 answer	det
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 received	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sighed	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 gust	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gust	det
13	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sighed	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wind	case
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gust	nmod
16	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
17	continually	continually	ADV	_	16 sighed	advmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	21 cavity	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 cavity	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cavity	det
21	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sighed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 blew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blew	cc
24	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
26	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 leaves	amod
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blew	obj
28	rustling	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 leaves	acl
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rustling	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rustling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	home	other questions				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
2	receive	past		no answer				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
3	sigh	past	the gust of wind		the cavity		continually property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	blow	past	home not said here	the withered leaves				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
5	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	rustle	gerund	the withered leaves not said here		the ground	before ground		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Location

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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