Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 48

Much to her astonishment, this hole kept spreading wider and wider, and growing deeper and deeper, until it really seemed to have no bottom; and all the while, there came a rumbling noise out of its depths, louder and louder, and nearer and nearer, and sounding like the tramp of horses' hoofs and the rattling of wheels.

Who acts: hole, it, while, notion, wheels · What happens: keep, spread, grow, seem, have, come · To what, where: bottom, rumbling noise, depths

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 (hole, it, while, notion), 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	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 astonishment	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Much	fixed
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 astonishment	nmod:poss
4	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 astonishment	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 spreading	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wider	cc
12	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 wider	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 growing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 growing	cc
15	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 spreading	conj
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 growing	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deeper	cc
18	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 deeper	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 seemed	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
22	really	really	ADV	_	23 seemed	advmod
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seemed	xcomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 while	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 while	det
32	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 came	expl
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 noise	det
37	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 noise	compound
38	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 depths	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 depths	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 depths	nmod:poss
42	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 noise	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 louder	punct
44	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 depths	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 louder	cc
46	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 louder	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 nearer	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 nearer	cc
49	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 came	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 nearer	cc
51	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 nearer	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 and	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 nearer	cc
54	sounding	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 and	acl
55	like	like	ADP	_	57 tramp	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 tramp	det
57	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sounding	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 hoofs	case
59	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 hoofs	nmod:poss
60	'	's	PART	_	59 horses	case
61	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 tramp	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 rattling	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 rattling	det
64	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 hoofs	conj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 wheels	case
66	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 rattling	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	this hole			much notion's astonishment	tree rules
2	spread	gerund	this hole not said here			wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	gerund	this hole not said here			deep property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	have	to-infinitive		no bottom			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient
6	come	past	all while	a rumbling noise	hole's depths; there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme
7	sound	gerund				like the tramp of horses's hoofs and the rattling of wheels	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	astonish		notion				nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
9	rattle		wheels				nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=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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