Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 18

A blue smoke went curling up from the chimney, and was almost the pleasantest part of the spectacle to Ulysses.

Who acts: blue smoke · What happens: go, curl up, be · To what, where: chimney, pleasantest part

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 (blue smoke), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 smoke	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smoke	amod
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	curling	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 curling	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 chimney	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chimney	det
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 part	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 part	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 part	cop
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 part	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 part	det
15	pleasantest	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 part	amod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 spectacle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spectacle	det
19	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 part	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Ulysses	case
21	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 spectacle	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	a blue smoke				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	curl up	gerund	a blue smoke not said here		the chimney		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Destination
3	is a	past		the pleasantest part		of the spectacle to Ulysses; almost 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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