Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 2

Just as he spoke, they heard a rough and very disagreeable roar, which greatly resembled the lowing of a fierce bull, but yet had some sort of sound like the human voice.

Who acts: Theseus, they, rough roar · What happens: speak, hear, resemble, have, sort · To what, where: rough roar, lowing, sort, sound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, they, rough roar), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 roar	det
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 roar	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 disagreeable	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 disagreeable	advmod
12	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rough	conj
13	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 resembled	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 resembled	nsubj
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	17 resembled	advmod
17	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 roar	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lowing	det
19	lowing	lowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 resembled	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 bull	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bull	det
22	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bull	amod
23	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lowing	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 sort	det
29	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 sound	case
31	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sort	nmod
32	like	like	ADP	_	35 voice	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 voice	det
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voice	amod
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sound	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Theseus				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	they	a rough roar			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus
3	resemble	past	a rough roar	the lowing of a fierce bull		greatly property	tree rules
4	have	past	Theseus not said here	some sort of sound like the human voice	yet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
5	sort			sound like the human voice			nom sort «cognition 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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