Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 69

But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado sweeping through the oak, and making one great utterance out of the thousand and thousand of little murmurs which each leafy tongue had caused by its rustling.

Who acts: noise, tornado, rustling, tongue · What happens: wax, resemble, sweep, make, cause, rustle · To what, where: tornado, oak, one great utterance, thousand, leafy tongue

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 (noise, tornado, rustling, tongue), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 waxed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waxed	nsubj
4	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 waxed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 deeper	cc
7	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 broader	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resembled	punct
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 resembled	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 resembled	nsubj
11	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waxed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tornado	det
13	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 resembled	obj
14	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 tornado	acl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 oak	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 oak	det
17	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sweeping	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 making	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 making	cc
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 waxed	advcl
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 utterance	nummod
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 utterance	amod
23	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 thousand	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 thousand	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thousand	det
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 making	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thousand	cc
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 thousand	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 murmurs	case
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 murmurs	amod
32	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thousand	nmod
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 caused	obj
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 tongue	det
35	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tongue	amod
36	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 caused	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 caused	aux
38	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 murmurs	acl:relcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 rustling	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 rustling	nmod:poss
41	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 caused	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wax	past	the noise			broad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	resemble	past	noise	a tornado			tree rules
3	sweep	gerund	a tornado not said here		the oak		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through oak=Trajectory
4	make	gerund	the noise not said here	one great utterance	the thousand		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset utterance=Product
5	cause	past · perfect · passive	tongue's rustling	each leafy tongue			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer subject=Theme which=Eventuality
6	rustle		tongue				nom rustling «act 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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