Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 105
The black horses had rushed along so swiftly, that they were already beyond the limits of the sunshine.
Who acts: horses · What happens: rush, be · To what, where: black horses
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | 3 horses | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horses | amod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | aux |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 swiftly | advmod |
| 8 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 limits | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 limits | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 limits | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 limits | cop |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 limits | advmod |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 limits | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 limits | det |
| 16 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rushed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sunshine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sunshine | det |
| 19 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 limits | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past · perfect · passive | the black horses | along, swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | horses = horse | beyond the limits; of the sunshine | tree rules |
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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