Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 71
A gush of smoke came from a chimney in the rear of the edifice.
Who acts: gush, smoke · What happens: come, gush · To what, where: chimney
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 (gush, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gush | det |
| 2 | gush | gush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 smoke | case |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gush | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 chimney | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chimney | det |
| 8 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rear | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rear | det |
| 11 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 edifice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edifice | det |
| 14 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rear | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a gush of smoke | a chimney | in the rear of the edifice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | gush | smoke | nom gush «event intransitive»: of=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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