Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 67
The sound grew louder, and became like the roar of a high wind.
Who acts: sound, high wind · What happens: grow, become, roar
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, high wind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 roar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roar | det |
| 10 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wind | amod |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roar | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the sound | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the sound not said here | like the roar of a high wind | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roar | a high wind | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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