Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 78

In a few moments the white foam was boiling up before their prow, as Prince Theseus and his companions sailed out of the harbor, with a whistling breeze behind them.

Who acts: white foam, companions · What happens: boil up, sail · To what, where: few moments, harbor

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 (white foam, companions), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 moments	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foam	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 foam	amod
7	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boiling	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boiling	aux
9	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 moments	acl:relcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 boiling	compound:prt
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 prow	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 prow	nmod:poss
13	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boiling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Theseus	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Theseus	case
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Theseus	compound
17	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 moments	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sailed	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 companions	nmod:poss
20	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sailed	nsubj
21	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Theseus	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 harbor	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 harbor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 harbor	det
25	harbor	harbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 breeze	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 breeze	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 breeze	det
29	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 breeze	compound
30	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailed	obl
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 breeze	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Theseus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil up	past · progressive	the white foam	a few moments not said here			before people's prow		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moment=Patient
2	sail	past	Theseus's companions			the harbor		with a whistling breeze behind people	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out harbor=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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