Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 8

But his new friends had not long been gone, when he was suddenly startled by cries, shouts, and screams, and the noise of a terrible struggle, and in the midst of it all, a most awful hissing, which went right through his ears like a rough saw.

Who acts: cries, awful hissing, terrible struggle · What happens: not go, startle, shout, scream, go, noise · To what, where: new friends, Cadmus, ears

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, awful hissing, terrible struggle), 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	_	9 gone	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gone	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 gone	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 gone	aux:pass
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 startled	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 startled	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 startled	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 startled	aux:pass
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 startled	advmod
15	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gone	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 cries	case
17	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 startled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shouts	punct
19	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 startled	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 screams	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 screams	cc
22	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 shouts	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noise	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 noise	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 noise	det
26	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 startled	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 struggle	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 struggle	det
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 struggle	amod
30	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noise	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 midst	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 midst	cc
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 midst	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 midst	det
35	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noise	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 midst	nmod
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 it	det
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hissing	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 hissing	det
41	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	42 awful	advmod
42	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hissing	amod
43	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 midst	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 hissing	acl:relcl
47	right	right	ADV	_	50 ears	advmod
48	through	through	ADP	_	50 ears	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 ears	nmod:poss
50	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 went	obl
51	like	like	ADP	_	54 saw	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 saw	det
53	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 saw	amod
54	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ears	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect · passive		Cadmus's new friends		long property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	startle	past · passive	cries	Cadmus		suddenly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
3	shout speech: express	present	cries not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	present	cries not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	a awful hissing		Cadmus's ears like a rough saw		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ear=Initial_Location
6	noise		a terrible struggle				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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