Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 32

As often as Ulysses moved forward, however, the bird showed the greatest alarm, and did its best to drive him back, with the anxious flutter of its purple wings.

Who acts: Ulysses, bird, purple wings · What happens: move forward, show, do, drive back, flutter · To what, where: greatest alarm, bird

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 (Ulysses, bird, purple wings), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 moved	mark
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 moved	nsubj
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 best	advcl
6	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 showed	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	12 showed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moved	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 alarm	det
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 alarm	amod
15	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 did	cc
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 best	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 best	nmod:poss
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 drive	mark
22	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 best	csubj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 drive	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 drive	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flutter	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 flutter	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flutter	det
28	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flutter	amod
29	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drive	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 wings	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wings	nmod:poss
32	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wings	amod
33	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flutter	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 best	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move forward	past	Ulysses		forward, often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	show	past	the bird	the greatest alarm	however property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alarm=Recipient
3	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drive back	to-infinitive		bird	with the anxious flutter of alarm's purple wings	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	flutter		alarm's purple wings			nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=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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