Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 56
So he ran as fast as he could down the steps, and never stopped to draw breath till he reached the shore.
Who acts: uproar · What happens: run, down, not stop, draw, reach · To what, where: steps, breath, shore
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 (uproar), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 down | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 down | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 down | aux |
| 9 | down | down | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fast | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steps | det |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 down | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 draw | mark |
| 17 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 draw | obj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 draw | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shore | det |
| 23 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | uproar | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | down | could | uproar | the steps | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not stop | past | uproar not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | uproar not said here | breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | uproar | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
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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