Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 88

He was rushing straight towards the Golden Fleece, when suddenly there was a frightful hiss, and the immense head and half the scaly body of the dragon was thrust forth (for he was twisted round the trunk of the tree on which the Fleece hung), and seizing the poor antelope, swallowed him with one snap of his jaws.

Who acts: antelope, rushing, Fleece · What happens: rush, be, twist, hang, seize, swallow · To what, where: frightful hiss, head thrust, antelope, trunk, tree, poor antelope

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 (antelope, rushing, Fleece), 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	3 rushing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushing	aux
3	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hiss	csubj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 Fleece	advmod
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 Fleece	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fleece	det
7	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Fleece	amod
8	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rushing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rushing	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 was	advmod
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hiss	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hiss	det
15	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hiss	amod
16	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thrust	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thrust	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 head	det
20	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 head	amod
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thrust	compound
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 body	cc
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 body	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 body	det
25	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 body	amod
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 head	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 dragon	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 body	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thrust	cop
31	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hiss	appos
32	forth	forth	ADV	_	31 thrust	advmod
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 twisted	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 twisted	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 twisted	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 twisted	aux:pass
37	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 thrust	parataxis
38	round	round	ADP	_	40 trunk	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 trunk	det
40	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 twisted	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 tree	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tree	det
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 trunk	nmod
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 hung	obl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Fleece	det
47	Fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	nsubj
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 tree	acl
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 hung	punct
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 seizing	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 seizing	cc
52	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 twisted	advcl
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 antelope	det
54	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 antelope	amod
55	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 seizing	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 swallowed	punct
57	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hiss	parataxis
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 swallowed	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 snap	case
60	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 snap	nummod
61	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 swallowed	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 jaws	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 jaws	nmod:poss
64	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 snap	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past · progressive	antelope			towards the Golden Fleece	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards fleece=Destination
2	is a	past	rushing	a frightful hiss			tree rules
3	is a	past		head thrust		forth property	tree rules
4	twist	past · passive		antelope	the trunk of the tree		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme round trunk=Trajectory
5	hang	past	the Fleece		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
6	seize	gerund		the poor antelope			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Theme
7	swallow	past		antelope		with one snap of antelope's jaws	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	snap			antelope's jaws			nom snap «act transitive»: of=patient

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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