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

Sometimes, for a minute or two, the Giant dropped asleep, and snored like the rush of a whirlwind.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: drop, snore, rush · To what, where: whirlwind

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 dropped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 minute	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropped	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 two	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minute	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 minute	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Giant	det
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dropped	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 snored	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 snored	cc
15	snored	snore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 dropped	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 rush	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rush	det
18	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snored	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 whirlwind	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 whirlwind	det
21	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rush	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the Giant		minute	asleep, sometimes property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	snore	participle	the Giant not said here			like the rush of a whirlwind	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush			a whirlwind			nom rush «act 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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