Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 25

Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan.

Who acts: Orpheus, galley, figure head · What happens: thrum away, slide, dip, drink, rise · To what, where: sea, prow, wave

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Orpheus, galley, figure head), 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	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thrummed	nsubj
2	thrummed	thrum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 thrummed	advmod
4	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thrummed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slid	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 galley	det
8	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slid	nsubj
9	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrummed	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 slid	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dipping	punct
16	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 slid	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 prow	nmod:poss
18	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dipping	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 deeply	advmod
20	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	16 dipping	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 drank	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
23	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 figure	punct
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drank	nsubj
26	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 deeply	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wave	det
28	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drank	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 lips	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lips	nmod:poss
31	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lips	amod
32	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wave	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rising	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rising	cc
35	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thrummed	advcl
36	again	again	ADV	_	38 buoyant	advmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 buoyant	advmod
38	buoyant	buoyant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rising	xcomp
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 swan	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 swan	det
41	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 buoyant	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrummed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrum away	past	Orpheus			away, briskly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	slide	past	the galley		the sea		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at once=Source into sea=Trajectory
3	dip	gerund	the galley not said here	Tiphys's prow		deeply property	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prow=Theme
4	drink	past	the figure head	the wave		with head's marvelous lips	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient
5	rise	gerund	Orpheus not said here			buoyant property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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