Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 11

Just imagine the grave old gentleman clattering and stamping into the schoolroom on his four hoofs, perhaps treading on some little fellow's toes, flourishing his switch tail instead of a rod, and, now and then, trotting out of doors to eat a mouthful of grass!

Who acts: you, old gentleman · What happens: imagine, clatter, stamp, tread, flourish, trot out · To what, where: old gentleman, schoolroom, toes, switch tail, doors, mouthful

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old gentleman), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 imagine	advmod
2	imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
4	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	amod
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagine	obj
7	clattering	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 gentleman	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stamping	cc
9	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 clattering	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 schoolroom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 schoolroom	det
12	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stamping	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 hoofs	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hoofs	nmod:poss
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hoofs	nummod
16	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stamping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 treading	punct
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 treading	advmod
19	treading	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 clattering	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	25 toes	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 fellow	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fellow	amod
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 toes	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 fellow	case
25	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 treading	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flourishing	punct
27	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 treading	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
29	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tail	compound
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flourishing	obj
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	34 rod	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 rod	det
34	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flourishing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 trotting	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 trotting	cc
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 now	punct
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 trotting	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 then	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 now	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 trotting	punct
42	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 imagine	advcl
43	out	out	ADP	_	45 doors	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 doors	case
45	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 trotting	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 eat	mark
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 trotting	advcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 mouthful	det
49	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eat	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 grass	case
51	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mouthful	nmod
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	the old gentleman				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gentleman=Theme
2	clatter	gerund	the old gentleman not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stamp	gerund	the old gentleman not said here		the schoolroom		on gentleman's four hoofs	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent into schoolroom=Destination
4	tread	gerund	the old gentleman not said here		some little fellow's toes		perhaps property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
5	flourish	gerund	the old gentleman not said here	gentleman's switch tail			instead a rod	tree rules
6	trot out	gerund	you not said here	doors		now		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Agent
7	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	a mouthful of grass				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=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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