Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 67

Down came the cold, snowy torrent from the steep side of Olympus, raging and thundering as if it had a real spite against Jason, or, at all events, were determined to snatch off his living burden from his shoulders.

Who acts: torrent, Jason · What happens: come, rage, thunder, have, be, snatch off · To what, where: cold snowy torrent, steep side, real spite, events, living burden, shoulders

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 (torrent, 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 torrent	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 torrent	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 torrent	amod
7	torrent	torrent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
10	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 side	amod
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Olympus	case
13	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 raging	punct
15	raging	rage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thundering	cc
17	thundering	thunder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 raging	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thundering	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 spite	det
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spite	amod
24	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	against	against	ADP	_	26 Jason	case
26	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 spite	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 determined	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 determined	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 or	punct
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 events	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 events	det
32	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 determined	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 events	punct
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 determined	cop
35	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 snatch	mark
37	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 determined	xcomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 snatch	compound:prt
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 burden	nmod:poss
40	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 burden	amod
41	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 snatch	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 shoulders	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoulders	nmod:poss
44	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 snatch	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past		the cold snowy torrent	the steep side of Olympus	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location
2	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	thunder	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	torrent	a real spite		against Jason	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spite=Patient
5	is	past			all events	determined property	tree rules
6	snatch off	to-infinitive		Jason's living burden	Jason's shoulders		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent burden=Theme from shoulder=Source
7	burden		Jason				nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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