Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 20
"It passed very swiftly along," said Hecate, "and, at the same time, there was a heavy rumbling of wheels towards the eastward.
Who acts: way, Hecate, wheels · What happens: pass, say, rumble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Hecate, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 swiftly | advmod |
| 5 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Hecate | Hecate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hecate | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hecate | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 time | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rumbling | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rumbling | amod |
| 24 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wheels | case |
| 26 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rumbling | nmod |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 eastward | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eastward | det |
| 29 | eastward | eastward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wheels | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | past | way | along, swiftly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hecate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rumble in a quote | wheels towards the eastward | nom rumbling «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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