Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 56

And so it turned out; for, hardly was the table set, before the three hideous vulture women came flapping their wings, seized the food in their talons, and flew off as fast as they could.

Who acts: scent, vulture women · What happens: turn out, be, come, flap, seize, fly off · To what, where: wings, food, talons

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 (scent, vulture women), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 turned	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	13 set	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 set	advmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 set	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 set	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	compound
13	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 women	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 vulture	nummod
18	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 vulture	amod
19	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 women	compound
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	parataxis
22	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 came	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wings	nmod:poss
24	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flapping	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seized	punct
26	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 food	det
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seized	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 talons	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 talons	nmod:poss
31	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seized	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 flew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 flew	cc
34	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seized	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 flew	compound:prt
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 fast	advmod
37	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 flew	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 could	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 could	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fast	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn out	past	scent				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				for the table set; hardly property	tree rules
3	come	past	the vulture women				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flap	gerund	the vulture women not said here	Harpies's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	seize	past	the vulture women not said here	the food	Harpies's talons		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	fly off	past	the vulture women not said here			fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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