Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 45
She gave another pull, but relaxed her hold, fancying that there was a rumbling sound right beneath her feet.
Who acts: Mother, rumbling sound · What happens: give, relax, fancy, be, rumble, hold · To what, where: pull, hold
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 (Mother, rumbling sound), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 pull | det |
| 4 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 relaxed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 relaxed | cc |
| 7 | relaxed | relax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relaxed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fancying | punct |
| 11 | fancying | fancy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 relaxed | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fancying | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 16 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sound | amod |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 feet | advmod |
| 19 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sound | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Mother | another pull | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme | ||||
| 2 | relax | past | Mother not said here | Mother's hold | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hold=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fancy | gerund | Mother not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a rumbling sound beneath Mother's feet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rumble | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | hold | Mother | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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