Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 98

But she might just as well have talked to the wind that whistled past them, for Pluto urged on his horses, and went faster than ever.

Who acts: Mother, wind, Pluto · What happens: talk, whistle, urge, go

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, wind, Pluto), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talked	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talked	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	8 talked	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	8 talked	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 talked	aux
8	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 whistled	nsubj
13	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wind	acl:relcl
14	past	past	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 whistled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 urged	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 urged	mark
18	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 urged	nsubj
19	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 talked	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 horses	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horses	nmod:poss
22	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 urged	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 urged	conj
26	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 went	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 ever	case
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 faster	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	might · perfect	Mother	to the wind	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wind=Co-Agent
2	whistle	past	the wind	past riches = rich	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	urge	past	Pluto	on Pluto's horses	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	Pluto not said here	fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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