Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 69

It rushed past, however, without touching him.

Who acts: way · What happens: rush, touch · To what, where: Jason

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 (way), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 touching	punct
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 touching	mark
8	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushed	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touching	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	past	way					however, past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	gerund	way not said here	Jason					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

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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