Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 81
Instead of being exhausted, he gathered strength as he went on; and, struggling up against the torrent, he at last gained the opposite shore, clambered up the bank, and set down the old dame and her peacock safely on the grass.
Who acts: Oak, opposite shore · What happens: exhaust, gather, go on, struggle up, gain, clamber up · To what, where: strength, opposite shore, bank, old dame, grass
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 (Oak, opposite shore), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 exhausted | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 4 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gathered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausted | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gathered | nsubj |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 gained | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gained | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 gained | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 struggling | compound:prt |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 torrent | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 torrent | det |
| 20 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struggling | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 struggling | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gained | nsubj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 he | nmod |
| 25 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shore | det |
| 27 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shore | amod |
| 28 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gained | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 clambered | punct |
| 30 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 shore | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 clambered | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bank | det |
| 33 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clambered | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 set | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 gained | advcl |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 set | compound:prt |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 dame | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dame | amod |
| 40 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 peacock | cc |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 peacock | nmod:poss |
| 43 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dame | conj |
| 44 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 36 set | advmod |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 grass | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 grass | det |
| 47 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | gerund · passive | Oak not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | Oak | strength | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | Oak | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | struggle up | gerund | Oak not said here | against the torrent | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | gain | past | Oak | the opposite shore | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 6 | clamber up | participle | the opposite shore not said here | the bank | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bank=Theme | ||||
| 7 | set down | infinitive | Oak not said here | the old dame and briskness's peacock | the grass | safely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dame=Theme on grass=Destination |
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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