Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 33
Its unaccountable behavior made him conclude, at last, that the bird knew of some danger that awaited him, and which must needs be very terrible, beyond all question, since it moved even a little fowl to feel compassion for a human being.
Who acts: unaccountable behavior, bird, danger, behavior · What happens: make, conclude, know, await, need, be · To what, where: bird, little fowl, compassion
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 (unaccountable behavior, bird, danger, behavior), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 2 | unaccountable | unaccountable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 behavior | amod |
| 3 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | conclude | conclude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 last | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 conclude | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 danger | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 danger | det |
| 17 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 awaited | nsubj |
| 19 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 danger | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 awaited | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 needs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 needs | cc |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 needs | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 needs | aux |
| 25 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 terrible | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 terrible | advmod |
| 28 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 needs | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 question | punct |
| 30 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 32 question | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 question | det |
| 32 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 terrible | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 moved | punct |
| 34 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 36 moved | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 moved | nsubj |
| 36 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 40 fowl | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fowl | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fowl | amod |
| 40 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 moved | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 feel | mark |
| 42 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 moved | advcl |
| 43 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 feel | obj |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 human | mark |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 human | det |
| 46 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 feel | xcomp |
| 47 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 human | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | flutter's unaccountable behavior | bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conclude | infinitive | bird not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | know | past | the bird | of some danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of danger=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | await | past | some danger | bird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | need | must | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | is not said to happen | infinitive | terrible property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | move | past | behavior | a little fowl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme fowl=Result | ||||
| 8 | feel | to-infinitive | behavior not said here | compassion | human property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Theme |
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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