Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 21

But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed out of his heart and swelled into his throat, all struggling to find utterance together.

Who acts: great many tender feelings, all · What happens: choke, gush, swell, struggle, find · To what, where: Theseus, heart, throat, utterance

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many tender feelings, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 choked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 choked	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 choked	aux:pass
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 choked	advmod
5	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	11 feelings	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 feelings	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feelings	amod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feelings	amod
10	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feelings	amod
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 choked	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 gushed	nsubj
13	gushed	gush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feelings	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 heart	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gushed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swelled	cc
19	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gushed	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 throat	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 throat	nmod:poss
22	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swelled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 struggling	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 struggling	nsubj
25	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 swelled	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 struggling	xcomp
28	utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 find	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 choked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choke	past · passive	a great many tender feelings	Theseus		almost property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
2	gush	past	a great many tender feelings		Theseus's heart		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out heart=Location
3	swell	past	a great many tender feelings not said here		Theseus's throat		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	struggle	gerund	all				tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	all not said here	utterance		together property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/21/