Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 78
One other stride did bold Jason make; and, suddenly as a streak of lightning, on came these fiery animals, roaring like thunder, and sending out sheets of white flame, which so kindled up the scene that the young man could discern every object more distinctly than by daylight.
Who acts: One other stride, Jason, white flame, young man · What happens: do, make, come, roar, send out, kindle up · To what, where: bold, fiery animals, sheets, scene, object
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 (One other stride, Jason, white flame, young man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stride | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stride | amod |
| 3 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bold | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 streak | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 streak | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 streak | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 streak | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 streak | det |
| 14 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lightning | case |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 streak | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 came | case |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 animals | det |
| 21 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roaring | punct |
| 24 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 thunder | case |
| 26 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roaring | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sending | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sending | cc |
| 29 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 roaring | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 sending | compound:prt |
| 31 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sending | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 flame | case |
| 33 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 flame | amod |
| 34 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sheets | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kindled | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 kindled | nsubj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 kindled | advmod |
| 38 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 flame | acl:relcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 kindled | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 scene | det |
| 41 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kindled | obj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 discern | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 man | det |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 man | amod |
| 45 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 discern | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 discern | aux |
| 47 | discern | discern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 scene | acl |
| 48 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 object | det |
| 49 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 discern | obj |
| 50 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 distinctly | advmod |
| 51 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 47 discern | advmod |
| 52 | than | than | ADP | _ | 54 daylight | case |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 daylight | case |
| 54 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 distinctly | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | One other stride | bold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bold=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Jason | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | One other stride not said here | this fiery animals | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location animal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roar | gerund | One other stride not said here | like thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send out | gerund | One other stride not said here | sheets of white flame | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme | ||||
| 6 | kindle up | past | white flame | the scene | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scene=Patient | ||||
| 7 | discern | could | the young man | every object | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus |
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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