Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 77

At the next step, each of the bulls made the pasture echo with a terrible roar, while the burning breath, which they thus belched forth, lit up the whole field with a momentary flash.

Who acts: bulls · What happens: make, belch, lit up · To what, where: pasture echo, burning breath, whole field

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 (bulls), 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	_	4 step	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 step	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 step	amod
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bulls	det
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bulls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bulls	det
9	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 echo	det
12	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 echo	compound
13	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 roar	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 roar	det
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roar	amod
17	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 echo	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 breath	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 breath	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 breath	det
21	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 breath	compound
22	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 belched	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 belched	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 belched	nsubj
26	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 belched	advmod
27	belched	belch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 breath	conj
28	forth	forth	ADV	_	27 belched	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lit	punct
30	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 belched	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 lit	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 field	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 field	amod
34	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lit	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 flash	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 flash	det
37	momentary	momentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 flash	amod
38	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 field	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	each bulls	the pasture echo	at the next step; with a terrible roar; the burning breath obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Product
2	belch	past	bulls = bull	the burning breath	forth, thus property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Source
3	lit up	participle	bulls = bull not said here	the whole field	with a momentary flash	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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