Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 22

Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps in the direction of the palace, when there was a great twittering and chirping from the branch of a neighboring tree.

Who acts: few steps · What happens: please, make, be, chirp, neighbor · To what, where: Ulysses, King, great twittering, branch

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 (few steps), 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	Pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 made	advcl
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Pleasing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 idea	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 idea	det
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pleasing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pleasing	punct
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
8	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	flat
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 steps	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steps	amod
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 twittering	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 direction	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 direction	det
16	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steps	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 direction	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 was	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 twittering	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 twittering	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 twittering	amod
26	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chirping	cc
28	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 twittering	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 branch	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 branch	det
31	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chirping	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 tree	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tree	det
34	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 tree	amod
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 branch	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	please	gerund		Ulysses		with this idea	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
2	make	past · perfect · passive		King			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is a	past	a few steps in the direction of the palace	a great twittering			tree rules
4	chirp	gerund	a few steps in the direction of the palace not said here		the branch of a neighboring tree		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	neighbor	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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