Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 84

When he approached the sty, two and twenty enormous swine separated themselves from the herd, and scampered towards him, with such a chorus of horrible squealing as made him clap both hands to his ears.

Who acts: trifle, enormous swine · What happens: approach, separate, scamper, make, clap, chorus · To what, where: sty, two, trifle, hands, ears, horrible squealing

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (trifle, enormous swine), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 approached	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 separated	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sty	det
5	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 separated	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 twenty	cc
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 two	conj
10	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 swine	amod
11	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 separated	nsubj
12	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 separated	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 herd	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 herd	det
16	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 separated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scampered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scampered	cc
19	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 separated	conj
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 scampered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 chorus	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 chorus	case
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 chorus	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chorus	det
26	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scampered	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 squealing	case
28	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 squealing	amod
29	squealing	squealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chorus	nmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 made	advmod
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 scampered	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	obj
33	clap	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	xcomp
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	35 hands	det
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 clap	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 ears	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ears	nmod:poss
38	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 clap	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	trifle	the sty			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sty=Theme
2	separate	past	enormous swine	two		from the herd	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient from herd=Co-Patient
3	scamper	participle	enormous swine not said here			towards trifle; with such chorus of horrible squealing	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
4	make	past	enormous swine not said here	trifle			tree rules
5	clap	infinitive	trifle not said here	both hands	trifle's ears		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to ear=Recipient
6	chorus			horrible squealing			nom chorus «event 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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