Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 24

Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was now swollen by heavy rains and by the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus; and it thundered so loudly, and looked so wild and dangerous, that Jason, bold as he was, thought it prudent to pause upon the brink.

Who acts: heavy rains, river, Jason · What happens: swell, thunder, look, be, pause, melt · To what, where: river, brink, snow

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 (heavy rains, river, Jason), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	6 river	mark
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 river	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 broad	advmod
5	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swollen	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 seasons	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seasons	det
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seasons	amod
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 river	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seasons	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swollen	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swollen	aux:pass
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 swollen	advmod
18	swollen	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 rains	case
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rains	amod
21	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 swollen	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 melting	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 melting	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 melting	det
25	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rains	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 snow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snow	det
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 melting	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 sides	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sides	det
31	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 snow	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Olympus	case
33	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Olympus	compound
34	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sides	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 thundered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 thundered	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thundered	nsubj
38	thundered	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swollen	parataxis
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 loudly	advmod
40	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	38 thundered	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 looked	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 looked	cc
43	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 thundered	conj
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 wild	advmod
45	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 looked	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 dangerous	cc
47	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wild	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bold	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 bold	mark
50	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 bold	compound
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Jason	punct
52	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 looked	parataxis
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 thought	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 thought	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 thought	cop
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 thought	punct
57	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 bold	advcl
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 thought	obj
59	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 thought	xcomp
60	to	to	PART	_	61 pause	mark
61	pause	pause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 prudent	xcomp
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	64 brink	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 brink	det
64	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 pause	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 swollen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell	past · passive	heavy rains and the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus	river		now		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient subject=Extent
2	thunder	past	river				loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	river not said here				wild property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	Jason				prudent, think property	tree rules
5	pause	to-infinitive	Jason not said here		the brink			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon brink=Location
6	melt			the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus				nom melting «process 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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