Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 72
Then the voice melted again into the indistinct murmur of the rustling leaves, and died gradually away.
Who acts: voice, indistinct murmur · What happens: melt, leave, die · To what, where: indistinct murmur
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 (voice, indistinct murmur), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 melted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melted | nsubj |
| 4 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 melted | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 murmur | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 murmur | det |
| 8 | indistinct | indistinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 murmur | amod |
| 9 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 melted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rustling | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rustling | det |
| 12 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaves | obl |
| 13 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 murmur | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 melted | conj |
| 17 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 18 away | advmod |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 died | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past | the voice | the indistinct murmur | then; again | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into murmur=Product | |||
| 2 | leave | present | the indistinct murmur not said here | of the rustling | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of rustling=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the voice not said here | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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