Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 98

The dragon had probably heard the voices; for swift as lightning, his black head and forked tongue came hissing among the trees again, darting full forty feet at a stretch.

Who acts: tongue · What happens: hear, fork, come, hiss, dart · To what, where: dragon, trees, full forty feet, stretch

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 (tongue), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voices	det
7	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 swift	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 swift	case
10	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 lightning	case
12	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swift	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 head	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 head	amod
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swift	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 forked	cc
18	forked	fork	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forked	ccomp
21	hissing	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 came	xcomp
22	among	among	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hissing	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	21 hissing	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 darting	punct
27	darting	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 hissing	conj
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feet	amod
29	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 feet	nummod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 darting	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 stretch	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stretch	det
33	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 darting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		the dragon			probably property	tree rules
2	fork	past						tree rules
3	come	past	tongue					tree rules
4	hiss	gerund	tongue not said here		the trees	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location
5	dart	gerund	tongue not said here	full forty feet	a stretch			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent foot=Theme at stretch=Trajectory

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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