Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 99

As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide-open throat.

Who acts: foot, Medea · What happens: approach, toss · To what, where: contents

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 (foot, Medea), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tossed	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct
5	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tossed	nsubj
6	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contents	det
8	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 tossed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 box	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 box	compound
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contents	nmod
13	right	right	ADV	_	21 throat	advmod
14	down	down	ADP	_	21 throat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 monster	det
16	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throat	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 monster	case
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 open	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 wide	punct
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 throat	amod
21	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tossed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	foot						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	toss	past	Medea	the contents of the gold box				down the monster's open throat	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=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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