Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 71

But by and by he heard a tremendous grunting and squealing, and then a sudden scampering, like that of small, hard hoofs over a marble floor, while the voices of the mistress and her four handmaidens were screaming all together, in tones of anger and derision.

Who acts: clatter, voices · What happens: hear, scream, intonate · To what, where: tremendous grunting, tones, anger

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 (clatter, voices), 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	_	6 heard	cc
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 by	cc
4	by	by	ADP	_	2 by	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grunting	det
8	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grunting	amod
9	grunting	grunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squealing	cc
11	squealing	squealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grunting	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scampering	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 scampering	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 scampering	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 scampering	det
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scampering	amod
17	scampering	scampering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 scampering	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 hoofs	case
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hoofs	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 small	punct
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hoofs	amod
25	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 that	nmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	29 floor	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 floor	det
28	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 floor	compound
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hoofs	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 screaming	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 screaming	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 voices	det
33	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 screaming	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 mistress	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mistress	det
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 voices	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 handmaidens	cc
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 handmaidens	nmod:poss
39	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 handmaidens	nummod
40	handmaidens	handmaiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 voices	conj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 screaming	aux
42	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 heard	advcl
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 together	advmod
44	together	together	ADV	_	42 screaming	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tones	punct
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 tones	case
47	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 screaming	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 anger	case
49	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tones	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 derision	cc
51	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 anger	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	clatter	a tremendous grunting and squealing			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grunting=Stimulus
2	scream speech: express	past · progressive	the voices of the mistress and voice's four handmaidens		tones of anger and derision	together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location
3	intonate			anger and derision			nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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