Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 2
At one time in the course of this weary voyage, he arrived at an island that looked very green and pleasant, but the name of which was unknown to him.
Who acts: city, island, name · What happens: arrive, look, be · To what, where: island, city
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 (city, island, name), 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 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 course | det |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voyage | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 voyage | det |
| 9 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voyage | amod |
| 10 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 course | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 island | acl:relcl |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 green | advmod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pleasant | cc |
| 22 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 green | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 unknown | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 unknown | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 name | det |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 unknown | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 name | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 unknown | cop |
| 30 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arrived | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 unknown | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | city | a island | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | a island | green property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the name | city | unknown 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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