Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 66
So he ran to the galley as fast as his legs would carry him.
Who acts: possibility, legs · What happens: run, carry · To what, where: galley, possibility
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 (possibility, legs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 galley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 galley | det |
| 6 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 legs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carry | aux |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fast | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | possibility | the galley | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to galley=Destination | |||
| 2 | carry | would | possibility's legs | possibility | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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