Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 74

At the first two or three steps which Jason made, the four fiery streams appeared to gush out somewhat more plentifully; for the two brazen bulls had heard his foot tramp, and were lifting up their hot noses to snuff the air.

Who acts: first two steps, four fiery streams · What happens: make, appear, gush out, hear, lift up, snuff · To what, where: more, foot tramp, hot noses, air

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first two steps, four fiery streams), 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	At	at	ADP	_	7 steps	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 steps	amod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 steps	nummod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 three	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 two	conj
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appeared	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 steps	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 steps	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 streams	det
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 streams	nummod
14	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 streams	amod
15	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 gush	mark
18	gush	gush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 appeared	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 gush	compound:prt
20	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 gush	obj
22	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	_	18 gush	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 bulls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bulls	det
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 bulls	nummod
27	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bulls	amod
28	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heard	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 appeared	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tramp	nmod:poss
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tramp	compound
33	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heard	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lifting	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lifting	cc
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lifting	aux
37	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 heard	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 lifting	compound:prt
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 noses	nmod:poss
40	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 noses	amod
41	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lifting	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 snuff	mark
43	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 lifting	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 air	det
45	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 snuff	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the first two steps			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	appear	past	the four fiery streams		at the first two steps	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	gush out	to-infinitive	the four fiery streams not said here	more	plentifully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
4	hear	past · perfect	the four fiery streams not said here	Jason's foot tramp	for the two brazen bulls	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tramp=Stimulus
5	lift up	past · progressive	the four fiery streams not said here	streams's hot noses		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
6	snuff	to-infinitive	the four fiery streams not said here	the air		tree rules

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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