Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 68

Medea, almost bursting with rage, uttered precisely such a hiss as one of her own snakes, only ten times more venomous and spiteful; and glaring fiercely out of the blaze of the chariot, she shook her hands over the multitude below, as if she were scattering a million of curses among them.

Who acts: Medea, chariot · What happens: burst, utter, glare, shake, scatter, blaze · To what, where: hiss, blaze, hands, multitude, million

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, chariot), 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	Medea	medea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bursting	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Medea	punct
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 bursting	advmod
4	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 shook	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 rage	case
6	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bursting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 uttered	punct
8	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bursting	parataxis
9	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	8 uttered	advmod
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 hiss	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hiss	det
12	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 uttered	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 uttered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 snakes	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 snakes	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 snakes	amod
18	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 venomous	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 ten	advmod
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 times	nummod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 more	obl:unmarked
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 venomous	advmod
24	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 uttered	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spiteful	cc
26	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 venomous	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 glaring	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glaring	cc
29	glaring	glare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bursting	conj
30	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	29 glaring	advmod
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 blaze	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 blaze	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 blaze	det
34	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glaring	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 chariot	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chariot	det
37	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blaze	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bursting	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shook	nsubj
40	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 hands	nmod:poss
42	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shook	obj
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 multitude	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 multitude	det
45	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shook	obl
46	below	below	ADV	_	45 multitude	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 scattering	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 scattering	mark
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 scattering	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 scattering	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 scattering	aux
52	scattering	scatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 shook	advcl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 million	det
54	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 scattering	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 curses	case
56	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 million	nmod
57	among	among	ADP	_	58 them	case
58	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 scattering	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	gerund	Medea			with rage; almost property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	utter speech: other	participle		such hiss		as one of Medea's own snakes; precisely property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hiss=Topic
3	glare	gerund	Medea not said here		the blaze of the chariot	fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out blaze=Location
4	shake	past	Medea	Medea's hands	the multitude		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over multitude=Trajectory
5	scatter	past · progressive	Medea	a million of curses		among chariot	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent million=Theme among they=Destination
6	blaze		the chariot				nom blaze «process 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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