Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 42

As they approached the entrance of the port, the giant straddled clear across it, with a foot firmly planted on each headland, and uplifting his club to such a height that its butt-end was hidden in the cloud, he stood in that formidable posture, with the sun gleaming all over his metallic surface.

Who acts: rocks, foaming, sun · What happens: approach, straddle, plant, uplift, hide, stand · To what, where: entrance, giant foot, headland, club, butt end, cloud

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 (rocks, foaming, sun), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 stood	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 entrance	det
5	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 port	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 port	det
8	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entrance	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foot	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foot	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 foot	amod
12	straddled	straddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 foot	parataxis
13	clear	clear	ADV	_	12 straddled	advmod
14	across	across	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 straddled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foot	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 foot	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 foot	det
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 port	conj
20	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	21 planted	advmod
21	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 foot	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 headland	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 headland	det
24	headland	headland	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 planted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 uplifting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 uplifting	cc
27	uplifting	uplift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 approached	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 club	nmod:poss
29	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uplifting	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 height	case
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 height	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 height	det
33	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uplifting	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 hidden	mark
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 end	nmod:poss
36	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 butt	punct
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hidden	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 hidden	aux:pass
40	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 height	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 cloud	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 cloud	det
43	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hidden	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stood	nsubj
46	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 posture	case
48	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 posture	det
49	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 posture	amod
50	posture	posture	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stood	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 gleaming	punct
52	with	with	SCONJ	_	55 gleaming	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sun	det
54	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gleaming	nsubj
55	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 stood	advcl
56	all	all	ADV	_	60 surface	advmod
57	over	over	ADP	_	60 surface	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 surface	nmod:poss
59	metallic	metallic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 surface	amod
60	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 gleaming	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	rocks = rock	the entrance of the port and the giant foot			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme
2	straddle	participle			entrance	clear property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	plant	participle		the giant foot not said here	each headland	firmly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on headland=Destination
4	uplift	gerund	rocks = rock not said here	foaming's club		to such height	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus club=Experiencer
5	hide	past · passive		entrance's butt end	the cloud		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cloud=Location
6	stand	past	foaming		that formidable posture		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in posture=Location
7	gleam	gerund	the sun		foaming's metallic surface		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over surface=Location

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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