Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 46

She had mistaken the rumbling of the chariot wheels for a peal of thunder, and imagined that a shower was coming up, and that it would assist her in making the corn grow.

Who acts: story, shower, corn, chariot wheels, thunder · What happens: mistake, imagine, come up, assist, make, grow · To what, where: rumbling, story, corn

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, shower, corn, chariot wheels), 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	3 mistaken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mistaken	aux
3	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rumbling	det
5	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mistaken	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 wheels	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wheels	det
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheels	compound
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rumbling	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 peal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 peal	det
12	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wheels	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thunder	case
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peal	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 imagined	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 imagined	cc
17	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mistaken	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 coming	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shower	det
20	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coming	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 coming	aux
22	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 imagined	ccomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 coming	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 assist	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 assist	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 assist	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 assist	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 assist	aux
29	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mistaken	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 assist	obj
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 making	mark
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 assist	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 corn	det
34	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	obj
35	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 making	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mistaken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mistake	past · perfect	story	the rumbling of the chariot wheels for a peal of thunder		tree rules
2	imagine	past	story not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come up	past · progressive	a shower			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	assist	would	shower		story	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
5	make	gerund	shower not said here	the corn		tree rules
6	grow	infinitive	the corn not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rumble		the chariot wheels for a peal of thunder			nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent
8	peal		thunder			nom peal «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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