Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 16

At a distance, towards the center of the island, he beheld the stately towers of what seemed to be a palace, built of snow-white marble, and rising in the midst of a grove of lofty trees.

Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: behold, seem, be, build, rise · To what, where: stately towers, palace, midst

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 distance	det
3	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beheld	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 center	punct
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 center	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 center	det
7	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distance	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 island	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 center	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 distance	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beheld	nsubj
13	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 towers	det
15	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 towers	amod
16	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beheld	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 towers	nmod
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	23 palace	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 palace	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seemed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 built	punct
25	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 palace	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 marble	case
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 snow	punct
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 marble	amod
30	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 built	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rising	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rising	cc
33	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 beheld	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 midst	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 midst	det
36	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rising	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 grove	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 grove	det
39	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 midst	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 trees	case
41	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 trees	amod
42	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 grove	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	past	Ulysses	the stately towers		at a distance and the center of the island	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tower=Stimulus
2	seem	past					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		a palace			tree rules
4	build	participle		a palace not said here		of white marble	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	rise	gerund	Ulysses not said here		the midst of a grove of lofty trees		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location

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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