Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 64

In a few moments, she heard a great noise of hissing snakes outside of the chamber window; and behold! there was her fiery chariot, and four huge winged serpents, wriggling and twisting in the air, flourishing their tails higher than the top of the palace, and all ready to set off on an aerial journey.

Who acts: Medea, great noise, hissing snakes · What happens: hear, be, wing, wriggle, twist, flourish · To what, where: great noise, fiery chariot, air, aerial journey

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 (Medea, great noise, hissing snakes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 moments	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moments	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 snakes	case
12	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snakes	compound
13	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 noise	nmod
14	outside	outside	ADP	_	18 window	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 window	compound
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snakes	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 chariot	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
21	behold	behold	INTJ	_	24 was	discourse
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 behold	punct
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chariot	cop
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chariot	nmod:poss
26	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chariot	amod
27	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 serpents	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 serpents	cc
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 serpents	nummod
31	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 serpents	amod
32	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 serpents	amod
33	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 chariot	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wriggling	punct
35	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 heard	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 twisting	cc
37	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 wriggling	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 air	det
40	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 twisting	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flourishing	punct
42	flourishing	flourish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 wriggling	conj
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 tails	nmod:poss
44	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 higher	nsubj
45	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 flourishing	ccomp
46	than	than	ADP	_	48 top	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 top	det
48	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 higher	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 palace	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 palace	det
51	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 top	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ready	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 ready	cc
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 ready	advmod
55	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 set	mark
57	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 ready	xcomp
58	off	off	ADP	_	57 set	compound:prt
59	on	on	ADP	_	62 journey	case
60	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 journey	det
61	aerial	aerial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 journey	amod
62	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 set	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	Medea	a great noise of hissing snakes outside the chamber window		moment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	is a	past		Medea's fiery chariot and four huge winged serpents			tree rules
3	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	wriggle	gerund	Medea not said here				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	twist	gerund	Medea not said here		the air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory
6	flourish	gerund	Medea not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	set off	to-infinitive	a great noise of hissing snakes outside the chamber window not said here		a aerial journey		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	noise		hissing snakes outside the chamber window				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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