Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 45

The next morning, their appetites were as sharp as ever.

Who acts: appetites · What happens: be

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 (appetites), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sharp	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 appetites	nmod:poss
6	appetites	appetite	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sharp	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sharp	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 sharp	advmod
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 sharp	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bones's appetites				morning	sharp property	tree rules

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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