Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 80

As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club.

Who acts: Talus, strides · What happens: move, hasten, retard, arrive, be, stride · To what, where: figure, enormous strides, strides, port

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 (Talus, strides), 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	ADP	_	3 figure	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hasten	obl
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 figure	acl
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 clockwork	case
6	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 figure	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	13 hasten	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hasten	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hasten	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hasten	aux
12	neither	neither	ADV	_	13 hasten	advmod
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 strides	nmod:poss
15	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 strides	amod
16	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hasten	obj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 retard	cc
18	retard	retard	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 hasten	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 retard	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arrived	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 arrived	nsubj
22	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hasten	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 port	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 port	det
25	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arrived	obl
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 reach	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reach	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	cop
29	just	just	ADV	_	32 reach	advmod
30	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	32 reach	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 reach	det
32	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arrived	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 club	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 club	nmod:poss
35	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reach	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	participle		the figure not said here		like clockwork	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	hasten	could		Talus's enormous strides		as the figure; however, neither property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stride=Patient
3	retard	infinitive		strides = stride			tree rules
4	arrive	past	Talus		the port		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	strides = stride			beyond the reach; of Talus's club	tree rules
6	stride		Talus				nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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