Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 70

All these came pelting down, like a shower of many-colored hailstones, upon the heads of grown people and children, who forthwith gathered them up, and carried them back to the palace.

Who acts: these, heads · What happens: come, pelt down, grow, gather up, carry back · To what, where: people, palace

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 (these, heads), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 came	det:predet
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pelting	pelt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 pelting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shower	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 shower	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shower	det
9	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pelting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 hailstones	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hailstones	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 many	punct
13	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hailstones	amod
14	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shower	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heads	punct
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 heads	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heads	det
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gathered	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heads	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 children	cc
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 people	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gathered	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 gathered	nsubj
26	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	27 gathered	advmod
27	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gathered	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 gathered	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 carried	cc
32	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carried	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 carried	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palace	det
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	these				tree rules
2	pelt down	gerund	these not said here			like a shower of many colored hailstones; down property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gather up	past	the heads of grown people and children	people		forthwith property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	carry back	past	these not said here	people	the palace		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to palace=Destination

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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