Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 50
"Aha!" muttered some of his companions, smacking their lips. "
What happens: mutter, smack · To what, where: some, lips
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 muttered | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 5 muttered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 5 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 muttered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 companions | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smacking | punct |
| 11 | smacking | smack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 muttered | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 smacking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 muttered | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | some | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic | |||||
| 2 | smack | gerund | companions's lips | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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