Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 17
The thick branches of these trees stretched across the front of the edifice, and more than half concealed it, although, from the portion which he saw, Ulysses judged it to be spacious and exceedingly beautiful, and probably the residence of some great nobleman or prince.
Who acts: thick branches, Ulysses · What happens: stretch, conceal, see, judge, be · To what, where: trees, front, half, portion
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 (thick branches, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branches | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 branches | amod |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 branches | nmod |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 trees | acl |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 front | det |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 edifice | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edifice | det |
| 13 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 concealed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 concealed | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 half | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 more | fixed |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 concealed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 portion | punct |
| 22 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 26 portion | mark |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 although | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 portion | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 portion | det |
| 26 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 concealed | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 saw | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 portion | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 judged | punct |
| 31 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 judged | nsubj |
| 32 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 concealed | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 judged | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 spacious | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 spacious | cop |
| 36 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 judged | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 beautiful | cc |
| 38 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 39 beautiful | advmod |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 spacious | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 residence | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 residence | cc |
| 42 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 44 residence | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 residence | det |
| 44 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 concealed | parataxis |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 nobleman | case |
| 46 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 nobleman | det |
| 47 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 nobleman | amod |
| 48 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 residence | nmod |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 prince | cc |
| 50 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 nobleman | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | participle | this trees not said here | the front of the edifice | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across front=Location | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past | the thick branches of this trees | half | the portion | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from portion=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | see | past | Ulysses | the portion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | judge | past | Ulysses | half | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent it=Value | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Ulysses not said here | spacious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | Ulysses not said here | exceedingly property | tree rules |
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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