Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 72
This vapor rose high in the air, and, meeting with a breeze, was wafted seaward, and made to pass over the heads of the hungry mariners.
Who acts: vapor · What happens: rise, meet, waft, make, pass · To what, where: air, seaward, heads
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 (vapor), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 vapor | det |
| 2 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 meeting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 meeting | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 meeting | punct |
| 11 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 breeze | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meeting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wafted | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wafted | aux:pass |
| 17 | wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rose | conj |
| 18 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wafted | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wafted | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pass | mark |
| 23 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | xcomp |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 heads | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heads | det |
| 26 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pass | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mariners | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mariners | det |
| 29 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mariners | amod |
| 30 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 heads | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | this vapor | the air | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 2 | meet | gerund | this vapor not said here | with a breeze | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with breeze=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | waft | past · passive | this vapor not said here | seaward | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: seaward=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | this vapor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | this vapor not said here | the heads of the hungry mariners | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
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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