Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 66
They immediately broke into so swift a gallop, that it seemed rather like flying through the air than running along the earth.
Who acts: reins, it · What happens: break, swift, seem, fly, run · To what, where: gallop, air, earth
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 (reins, it), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 swift | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 swift | advmod |
| 6 | swift | swift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 broke | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gallop | det |
| 8 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swift | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 seemed | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 flying | mark |
| 15 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flying | obl |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 running | mark |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 flying | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 running | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | reins = rein | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swift | infinitive | reins = rein not said here | a gallop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | the earth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along earth=Trajectory |
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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