Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 24

It was a very pretty little bird, with purple wings and body, and yellow legs, and a circle of golden feathers round its neck, and on its head a golden tuft, which looked like a king's crown in miniature.

Who acts: face, golden tuft, king · What happens: be, look, crown · To what, where: pretty little bird, miniature

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 (face, golden tuft, king), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wings	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wings	case
10	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wings	amod
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 body	cc
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wings	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 legs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 legs	cc
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 circle	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 circle	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 circle	det
21	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 feathers	case
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feathers	amod
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 circle	nmod
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feathers	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 head	cc
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 tuft	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tuft	amod
35	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 head	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tuft	acl:relcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	43 crown	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 crown	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 king	case
43	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 miniature	case
45	miniature	miniature	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 crown	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	face	a pretty little bird and yellow legs and face's head			tree rules
2	look	past	a golden tuft			like a king's crown in miniature	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	crown		a king		miniature		nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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