Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 86

And Hecate took her at her word, and hurried back to her beloved cave, frightening a great many little children with a glimpse of her dog's face as she went.

Who acts: Hecate · What happens: take, hurry back, go, word, glimpse · To what, where: Ceres, word, beloved cave, face

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 (Hecate), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hurried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hurried	cc
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 hurried	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 cave	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cave	nmod:poss
14	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cave	amod
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 frightening	punct
17	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 children	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 frightening	nsubj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 glimpse	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 glimpse	det
25	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 face	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 dog	nmod:poss
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 face	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 dog	case
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glimpse	nmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 went	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Hecate	Ceres	Hecate's word	with a glimpse of Hecate's dog's face	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at word=Asset
2	hurry back	past	Hecate not said here		Hecate's beloved cave		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination
3	go	past	Hecate				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	word		Hecate				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	glimpse			Hecate's dog's face			nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient

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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