Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 27

It stepped from cliff to cliff, and sometimes from one headland to another, while the sea foamed and thundered on the shore beneath, and dashed its jets of spray over the giant's feet.

Who acts: vessel, sea · What happens: step, foam, thunder, dash · To what, where: cliff, shore, jets, feet

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessel, sea), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 cliff	case
4	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 cliff	case
6	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 headland	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 headland	cc
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 headland	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 headland	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 headland	nummod
12	headland	headland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 headland	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foamed	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 foamed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foamed	nsubj
19	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thundered	cc
21	thundered	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 foamed	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 shore	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shore	det
24	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thundered	obl
25	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	21 thundered	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dashed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dashed	cc
28	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 jets	nmod:poss
30	jets	jet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dashed	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 spray	case
32	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jets	nmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	37 feet	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giant	det
35	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feet	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 giant	case
37	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dashed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	vessel		cliff	to cliff	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Destination
2	foam	past	the sea				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	thunder	past	the sea not said here		the shore	beneath property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
4	dash	past	vessel not said here	vessel's jets of spray	the giant's feet		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent jet=Theme over foot=Trajectory

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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