Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 66

The king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast as he could to the window, and bawled out to the abominable enchantress never to come back.

Who acts: king · What happens: hear, scramble, bawl out, not come back, hiss · To what, where: hiss, abominable enchantress, serpents

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 (king), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scrambled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hearing	punct
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 king	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hiss	det
6	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 serpents	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 serpents	det
9	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hiss	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
11	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 scrambled	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 could	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fast	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 could	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bawled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bawled	cc
22	bawled	bawl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 scrambled	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 bawled	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 enchantress	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 enchantress	det
26	abominable	abominable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 enchantress	amod
27	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bawled	obl
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 come	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 come	mark
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bawled	parataxis
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 scrambled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the king not said here	the hiss of the serpents			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hiss=Stimulus
2	scramble	past	the king			fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bawl out speech: other	participle	the king not said here		the abominable enchantress		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to enchantress=Recipient
4	not come back	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hiss			the serpents			nom hiss «event 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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