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Universal Dependencies - English - GUM

LanguageEnglish
ProjectGUM
Corpus Parttrain
AnnotationPeng, Siyao;Zeldes, Amir

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[1] tree
The Further Vision
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The Further Vision
[2] tree
I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.
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“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.
[3] tree
And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion.
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And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion.
[4] tree
For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.
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For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.
[5] tree
One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions.
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One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions.
[6] tree
Now, instead of reversing the levers, I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watchinto futurity.
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Now, instead of reversing the levers, I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch—into futurity.
[7] tree
As I drove on, a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things.
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“As I drove on, a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things.
[8] tree
The palpitating greyness grew darker; thenthough I was still travelling with prodigious velocitythe blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked.
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The palpitating greyness grew darker; then—though I was still travelling with prodigious velocity—the blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked.
[9] tree
This puzzled me very much at first.
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This puzzled me very much at first.
[10] tree
The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries.
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The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries.
[11] tree
At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.
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At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.
[12] tree
The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to setit simply rose and fell in the west, and grew ever broader and more red.
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The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set—it simply rose and fell in the west, and grew ever broader and more red.
[13] tree
All trace of the moon had vanished.
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All trace of the moon had vanished.
[14] tree
The circling of the stars, growing slower and slower, had given place to creeping points of light.
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The circling of the stars, growing slower and slower, had given place to creeping points of light.
[15] tree
At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.
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At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.
[16] tree
At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat.
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At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat.
[17] tree
I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and setting that the work of the tidal drag was done.
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I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and setting that the work of the tidal drag was done.
[18] tree
The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth.
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The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth.
[19] tree
Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion.
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Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion.
[20] tree
Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands one seemed motionless and the daily one was no longer a mere mist upon its scale.
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Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands one seemed motionless and the daily one was no longer a mere mist upon its scale.
[21] tree
Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible.
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Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible.
[22] tree
I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round.
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“I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round.
[23] tree
The sky was no longer blue.
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The sky was no longer blue.
[24] tree
North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars.
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North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars.
[25] tree
Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
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Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
[26] tree
The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face.
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The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face.
[27] tree
It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
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It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
[28] tree
The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
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“The machine was standing on a sloping beach.
[29] tree
The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky.
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The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky.
[30] tree
There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring.
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There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring.
[31] tree
Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
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Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
[32] tree
And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of saltpink under the lurid sky.
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And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt—pink under the lurid sky.
[33] tree
There was a sense of oppression in my head, and I noticed that I was breathing very fast.
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There was a sense of oppression in my head, and I noticed that I was breathing very fast.
[34] tree
The sensation reminded me of my only experience of mountaineering, and from that I judged the air to be more rarefied than it is now.
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The sensation reminded me of my only experience of mountaineering, and from that I judged the air to be more rarefied than it is now.
[35] tree
Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond.
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“Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond.
[36] tree
The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine.
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The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine.
[37] tree
Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me.
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GUM_fiction_time-37
Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me.
[38] tree
Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature.
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Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature.
[39] tree
Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennæ, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front?
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GUM_fiction_time-39
Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennæ, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front?
[40] tree
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
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Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
[41] tree
I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
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GUM_fiction_time-41
I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.

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