Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 32

So they hastened their steps towards the portal, but had not got half way across the wide lawn, when a pack of lions, tigers, and wolves came bounding to meet them.

Who acts: clouds, pack · What happens: hasten, not get, come, bound, meet, step · To what, where: steps, portal, way, wide lawn, clouds

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, pack), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steps	nmod:poss
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hastened	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 portal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 portal	det
8	portal	portal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hastened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 got	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hastened	parataxis
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 way	advmod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
16	across	across	ADP	_	19 lawn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lawn	det
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lawn	amod
19	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 came	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pack	det
23	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 lions	case
25	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pack	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tigers	punct
27	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lions	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
30	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hastened	conj
32	bounding	bound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 came	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 meet	mark
34	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bounding	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meet	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hasten	past	clouds = cloud	clouds's steps	the portal	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme towards portal=Trajectory
2	not get	past · perfect		way	the wide lawn	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across lawn=Destination
3	come	past	a pack of lions and tigers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bound	gerund	a pack of lions and tigers not said here			tree rules
5	meet	to-infinitive	a pack of lions and tigers not said here	clouds = cloud		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
6	step		clouds = cloud			nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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