Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 36

As soon as Ulysses turned back, it ran up the trunk of a tree, and began to pick insects out of the bark with its long, sharp bill; for it was a kind of woodpecker, you must know, and had to get its living in the same manner as other birds of that species.

Who acts: Ulysses, present, you · What happens: turn back, run up, begin, pick, be, know · To what, where: trunk, insects, bark, living, same manner

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, present, you), 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 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 ran	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	advcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trunk	det
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trunk	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pick	mark
20	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pick	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 bark	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bark	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bark	det
25	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pick	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 bill	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bill	nmod:poss
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bill	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 long	punct
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bill	amod
31	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pick	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 kind	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 kind	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 kind	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 kind	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 kind	det
37	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 woodpecker	case
39	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 kind	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 know	aux
43	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 kind	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 had	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 had	cc
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 get	mark
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 had	xcomp
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 living	nmod:poss
50	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 manner	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 manner	det
53	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 manner	amod
54	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl
55	as	as	ADP	_	57 birds	case
56	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 birds	amod
57	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 get	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 species	case
59	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 species	det
60	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 birds	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	Ulysses				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run up	past	present	the trunk of a tree		soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=Theme
3	begin	past	present not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pick	to-infinitive	present not said here	insects	the bark	with present's long sharp bill	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
5	is	past	present			for a kind; of woodpecker	tree rules
6	know	must	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	have	past	present not said here				tree rules
8	get	to-infinitive	present not said here	present's living	the same manner	as other birds of that species	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus as bird=Attribute
9	bill		present				nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent
10	live		present				nom living «cognition 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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