Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 50

The door of the saloon being flung open, the drove of hogs ran in all directions save the right one, in accordance with their hoggish perversity, but were finally driven into the back yard of the palace.

Who acts: directions · What happens: fling, drive, run, save · To what, where: door, right one

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (directions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 saloon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 saloon	det
5	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 door	nmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flung	aux:pass
7	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flung	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drove	det
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flung	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hogs	case
13	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ran	obl
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drove	conj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 save	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 directions	det
17	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 save	nsubj
18	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ran	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 save	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accordance	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 accordance	case
24	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	appos
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 perversity	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 perversity	nmod:poss
27	hoggish	hoggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 perversity	amod
28	perversity	perversity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accordance	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 driven	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 driven	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 driven	aux:pass
32	finally	finally	ADV	_	33 driven	advmod
33	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flung	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 yard	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 yard	det
36	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 yard	compound
37	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 driven	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 palace	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 palace	det
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 yard	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fling	gerund · passive		the door of the saloon	open property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drive	past				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past			of hogs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of hog=Trajectory
4	save	present	all directions	the right one		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	drive	past · passive			into the back yard of the palace; finally property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: into yard=Trajectory

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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