Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 100
Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle--flinging his tail up to the tip-top of the tallest tree, and shattering all its branches as it crashed heavily down again--the dragon fell at full length upon the ground, and lay quite motionless.
Who acts: tremendous wriggle, dragon, tail · What happens: fling up, shatter, crash, fall, lie · To what, where: tail, tip top, branches, full length
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tremendous wriggle, dragon, tail), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 40 fell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Immediately | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hiss | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hiss | det |
| 5 | outrageous | outrageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hiss | amod |
| 6 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wriggle | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wriggle | det |
| 9 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wriggle | amod |
| 10 | wriggle | wriggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hiss | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 flinging | punct |
| 12 | flinging | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wriggle | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flinging | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 flinging | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 top | det |
| 18 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tip | punct |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flinging | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 23 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 tree | amod |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shattering | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shattering | cc |
| 27 | shattering | shatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hiss | advcl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 branches | det:predet |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 branches | nmod:poss |
| 30 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shattering | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 crashed | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 crashed | nsubj |
| 33 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shattering | advcl |
| 34 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 35 down | advmod |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 crashed | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 crashed | advmod |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 hiss | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 dragon | det |
| 39 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | nsubj |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 length | case |
| 42 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 length | amod |
| 43 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obl |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 ground | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ground | det |
| 46 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 lay | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 lay | cc |
| 49 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fell | conj |
| 50 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 51 motionless | advmod |
| 51 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 lay | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling up | gerund | a tremendous wriggle not said here | monster's tail | the tip top of the tallest tree | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 2 | shatter | gerund | the dragon not said here | tree's branches | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | ||||
| 3 | crash | past | tail | again | down property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the dragon | full length | with a outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle; upon the ground; immediately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 5 | lie | past | the dragon not said here | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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