Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 41

Still the vessel went bounding onward; and now Theseus could hear the brazen clangor of the giant's footsteps, as he trod heavily upon the sea-beaten rocks, some of which were seen to crack and crumble into the foaming waves beneath his weight.

Who acts: you, vessel, Theseus, some, foaming · What happens: still, go, bound, hear, tread, beat · To what, where: brazen clangor, beaten rocks, some, weight, footsteps

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 (you, vessel, Theseus, some), 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	Still	still	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vessel	det
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Still	ccomp
5	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
6	onward	onward	ADV	_	5 bounding	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 hear	advmod
10	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Still	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 clangor	det
14	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clangor	amod
15	clangor	clangor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 footsteps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 footsteps	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 giant	case
20	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clangor	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trod	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 trod	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 trod	nsubj
24	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	conj
25	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	24 trod	advmod
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 rocks	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rocks	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beaten	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 sea	punct
30	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 rocks	amod
31	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 trod	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seen	punct
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 seen	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 some	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux:pass
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 rocks	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 crack	mark
39	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 seen	xcomp
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 crumble	cc
41	crumble	crumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 crack	conj
42	into	into	SCONJ	_	45 waves	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 foaming	det
44	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 waves	nsubj
45	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 crumble	advcl
46	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	48 weight	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 weight	nmod:poss
48	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 waves	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	still	imperative	you not said here					tree rules
2	go	past	the vessel					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bound	gerund	the vessel not said here				onward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	could	Theseus	the brazen clangor of the giant's footsteps		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer clangor=Stimulus
5	tread	past	Theseus		the beaten rocks		heavily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rock=Trajectory
6	beat	participle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	past · passive		some				tree rules
8	crack	to-infinitive	some not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	crumble	infinitive	some not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	wave	present	the foaming		foaming's weight			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath weight=Location
11	clangor			the giant's footsteps				nom clangor «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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