Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 26

But it fluttered nimbly out of his reach, still chirping in a piteous tone, as if it could have told a lamentable story, had it only been gifted with human language.

Who acts: face · What happens: flutter, chirp, tell, have, gift · To what, where: reach, piteous tone, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 fluttered	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fluttered	nsubj
3	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	3 fluttered	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 reach	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reach	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reach	nmod:poss
8	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fluttered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chirping	punct
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 chirping	advmod
11	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fluttered	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tone	det
14	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tone	amod
15	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chirping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	aux
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 chirping	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 story	det
24	lamentable	lamentable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 story	amod
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fluttered	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	obj
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 gifted	advmod
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 gifted	aux:pass
31	gifted	gift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 language	case
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 language	amod
34	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gifted	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fluttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flutter	past	face		bird's reach		nimbly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out reach=Location
2	chirp	gerund	face not said here		a piteous tone	still		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		face				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient story=Topic
4	have	past	face not said here	face				tree rules
5	gift	participle · passive	face not said here				with human language	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»

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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