Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 75
He went a little farther, and by the way in which the red vapor now spouted forth, he judged that the creatures had got upon their feet.
Who acts: Jason, creatures · What happens: go, spout, judge, get · To what, where: red vapor, way
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 (Jason, creatures), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farther | obl |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 judged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 judged | cc |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 judged | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spouted | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vapor | det |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vapor | amod |
| 15 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spouted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 spouted | advmod |
| 17 | spouted | spout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 spouted | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 judged | nsubj |
| 21 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 got | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 creatures | det |
| 24 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 got | aux |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 judged | advcl |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 feet | nmod:poss |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jason | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spout | participle · passive | the red vapor | the way | now | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | ||
| 3 | judge | past | Jason | by the way | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | the creatures | upon creatures's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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