Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 37

But every little while, as it pecked at the bark of the tree, the purple bird bethought itself of some secret sorrow, and repeated its plaintive note of "Peep, peep, pe--weep!"

Who acts: present, little while · What happens: peck, bethink, repeat, note · To what, where: little while, bark, present, plaintive note, Peep

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 (present, little while), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 bethought	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 while	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 while	amod
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bethought	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pecked	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 pecked	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pecked	nsubj
8	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 while	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 bark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bark	det
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pecked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bird	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
17	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bird	amod
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	conj
19	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 bethought	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 sorrow	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 sorrow	det
23	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sorrow	amod
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bethought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 repeated	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 repeated	cc
27	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bethought	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 note	nmod:poss
29	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 note	amod
30	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 repeated	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Peep	case
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Peep	punct
33	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 note	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 peep	punct
35	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 note	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pe	punct
37	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 note	conj
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 weep	punct
39	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 note	conj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 bethought	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peck	past	present	every little while not said here	the bark of the tree and the purple bird		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent while=Patient at bark=Location
2	bethink	past	every little while	present		of some secret sorrow	tree rules
3	repeat	past	every little while not said here	present's plaintive note of Peep and peep and pe and weep			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Eventuality
4	note		present	Peep			nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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