Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 27
And when he attempted to drive it away, the bird flew no farther than the bough of the next tree, and again came fluttering about his head, with its doleful chirp, as soon as he showed a purpose of going forward.
Who acts: bird, purpose, face · What happens: attempt, drive away, fly, come, flutter, show · To what, where: face, purpose
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 (bird, purpose, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 attempted | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 attempted | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 attempted | nsubj |
| 4 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drive | mark |
| 6 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attempted | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drive | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 drive | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attempted | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 farther | advmod |
| 14 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 flew | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 bough | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bough | det |
| 17 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 farther | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bough | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 26 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 came | xcomp |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fluttering | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 chirp | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 chirp | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 chirp | nmod:poss |
| 33 | doleful | doleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chirp | amod |
| 34 | chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 soon | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 soon | advmod |
| 37 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 came | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 showed | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 showed | nsubj |
| 40 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 soon | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 purpose | det |
| 42 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 showed | obj |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 going | mark |
| 44 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 purpose | acl |
| 45 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 44 going | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | bird | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drive away not said to happen | to-infinitive | bird not said here | face | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the bird | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the bird not said here | again | with face's doleful chirp; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | flutter | gerund | the bird not said here | about bird's head | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about head=Location | ||||
| 6 | show | past | bird | a purpose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | go | gerund | a purpose not said here | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | chirp | face | nom chirp «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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