Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 68

When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus.

Who acts: Jason, uprooted tree, splintered branches · What happens: be, uproot, tell, break, bear down, splinter · To what, where: half way, uprooted tree, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jason, uprooted tree, splintered branches), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 way	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
4	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broke	obl
6	across	across	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broke	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 told	nsubj:pass
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj:pass
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tree	appos
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	about	about	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	loose	loose	ADV	_	20 broke	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 rocks	case
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 rocks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rocks	det
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 broke	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bore	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bore	cc
28	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 broke	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 bore	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bore	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 branches	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 branches	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 branches	det:predet
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 branches	nmod:poss
36	splintered	splinter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 branches	amod
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bore	obl
38	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 branches	acl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 sticking	compound:prt
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 arms	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 arms	det
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 arms	nummod
43	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sticking	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 Briareus	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Briareus	det
46	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Briareus	amod
47	Briareus	Briareus	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 arms	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Jason	half way		across property	tree rules
2	uproot	participle					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the uprooted tree	you	about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
4	break	past	the uprooted tree			from the rocks; loose property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from rock=Co-Patient
5	bear down	past	the uprooted tree not said here			upon Jason; with way's splintered branches; down property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	splinter	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	stick out	gerund	way's splintered branches not said here			like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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