Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 29

And he was ready to listen attentively to whatever the bird might communicate; for, at the siege of Troy, and elsewhere, he had known such odd things to happen, that he would not have considered it much out of the common run had this little feathered creature talked as plainly as himself.

Who acts: bird, feathered creature · What happens: be, listen, communicate, know, happen, not consider · To what, where: bird, siege, common run

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, feathered creature), 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 ready	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 listen	mark
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	xcomp
7	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	6 listen	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 whatever	case
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 listen	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 communicate	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 communicate	aux
13	communicate	communicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whatever	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 siege	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 siege	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 siege	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 siege	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 siege	det
19	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Troy	case
21	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 siege	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 known	cc
24	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	28 known	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 known	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	parataxis
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
30	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 known	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 happen	mark
33	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 things	acl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 considered	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 considered	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 considered	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 considered	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 considered	advmod
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 considered	aux
40	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 known	parataxis
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 considered	obj
42	much	much	ADV	_	40 considered	advmod
43	out	out	ADP	_	47 run	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 run	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 run	det
46	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 run	amod
47	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 had	obl
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 considered	conj
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 creature	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 feathered	amod
51	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 creature	amod
52	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 talked	nsubj
53	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 had	ccomp
54	as	as	ADV	_	55 plainly	advmod
55	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	53 talked	advmod
56	as	as	ADP	_	57 himself	case
57	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 plainly	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	bird			ready property	tree rules
2	listen	to-infinitive	bird not said here			to whatever; for the siege of Troy; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to whatever=Theme
3	communicate	might	the bird				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know	past · perfect · passive		bird		elsewhere property	tree rules
5	happen	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not consider	would · perfect	bird	siege			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
7	have	past	bird not said here		the common run		tree rules
8	talk	past	this feathered creature			plainly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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