Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 33
In a very short time, they had passed the great gateway (leaving the three-headed Cerberus, barking, and yelping, and growling, with threefold din, behind them), and emerged upon the surface of the earth.
Who acts: great gateway · What happens: pass, leave, bark, yelp, growl, emerge · To what, where: things, headed Cerberus, surface
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great gateway), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 passed | aux |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gateway | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gateway | amod |
| 12 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 gateway | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Cerberus | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 headed | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Cerberus | amod |
| 19 | Cerberus | Cerberus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 barking | punct |
| 21 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 leaving | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yelping | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 yelping | cc |
| 24 | yelping | yelp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 barking | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 growling | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 growling | cc |
| 27 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 leaving | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 din | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 din | case |
| 30 | threefold | threefold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 din | amod |
| 31 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 growling | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 them | punct |
| 33 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leaving | obj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 them | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 emerged | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 emerged | cc |
| 38 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 passed | conj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 surface | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 surface | det |
| 41 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 emerged | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 earth | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 earth | det |
| 44 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 surface | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | time | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gateway=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the great gateway not said here | the headed Cerberus | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cerberus=Theme they=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | the great gateway not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | yelp | gerund | the great gateway not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | growl | gerund | the great gateway not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | emerge | past | the surface of the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon surface=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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