Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 79

Most distinctly of all he saw the two horrible creatures galloping right down upon him, their brazen hoofs rattling and ringing over the ground, and their tails sticking up stiffly into the air, as has always been the fashion with angry bulls.

Who acts: Jason, two horrible creatures, brazen hoofs, tails · What happens: see, gallop, rattle, ring, stick up, have · To what, where: two horrible creatures, ground, air, fashion

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, two horrible creatures, brazen hoofs, tails), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 distinctly	nsubj
2	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 distinctly	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creatures	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 creatures	nummod
9	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creatures	amod
10	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
11	galloping	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 creatures	acl
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 down	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 galloping	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 galloping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoofs	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hoofs	nmod:poss
18	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hoofs	amod
19	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 creatures	parataxis
20	rattling	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 hoofs	acl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ringing	cc
22	ringing	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 rattling	conj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ringing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sticking	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sticking	cc
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tails	nmod:poss
29	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sticking	nsubj
30	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 sticking	compound:prt
32	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	30 sticking	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sticking	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 has	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 has	mark
38	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 fashion	advmod
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 fashion	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fashion	det
42	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 has	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 bulls	case
44	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 bulls	amod
45	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fashion	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jason	the two horrible creatures		distinctly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
2	gallop	gerund	the two horrible creatures not said here			upon Jason; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
3	rattle	gerund	creatures's brazen hoofs not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ring	gerund	creatures's brazen hoofs not said here		the ground		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location
5	stick up	gerund	creatures's tails		the air	stiffly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
6	have	present	Jason not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a	participle		the fashion		with angry bulls; always property	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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