Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 48

Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time.

Who acts: Quicksilver · What happens: make, take, fly, stand · To what, where: flying leap, door

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quicksilver), 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	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 made	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leap	det
16	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 leap	amod
17	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	right	right	ADV	_	24 mastiff	advmod
19	over	over	ADP	_	24 mastiff	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mastiff	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 headed	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 three	punct
23	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mastiff	amod
24	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 door	det
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 palace	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 palace	det
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 door	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 time	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 time	det
36	inconceivably	inconceivably	ADV	_	37 short	advmod
37	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 time	amod
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Quicksilver				accordingly, good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	take	past		a flying leap			over the headed mastiff	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
3	fly	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past			the door of the palace	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location

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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