Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 49

At a considerable distance from the shore stood a marble palace, which appeared to be very spacious, and had a great deal of smoke curling out of one of its chimneys."

Who acts: marble palace, smoke · What happens: stand, appear, be, have, curl, deal · To what, where: marble palace, great deal, smoke

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 (marble palace, smoke), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 distance	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 distance	det
3	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 distance	amod
4	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 distance	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 palace	det
10	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 palace	amod
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 appeared	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 appeared	nsubj
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 palace	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 spacious	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 spacious	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 spacious	advmod
18	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 appeared	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deal	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deal	amod
24	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 smoke	case
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deal	nmod
27	curling	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 smoke	acl
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 one	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 curling	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 chimneys	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 chimneys	nmod:poss
33	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a marble palace	at a considerable distance from the shore	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme at distance=Destination
2	appear	past	a marble palace			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	a marble palace not said here		spacious property	tree rules
4	have	past		a great deal of smoke		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
5	curl	gerund	smoke not said here		out one of smoke's chimneys	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out one=Destination
6	deal			smoke		nom deal «act transitive»: 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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