Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 73
When people's appetites are keen, they have a very quick scent for anything savory in the wind.
Who acts: appetites · What happens: be, have · To what, where: quick scent
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 keen | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appetites | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 people | case |
| 4 | appetites | appetite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keen | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keen | cop |
| 6 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keen | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 scent | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 quick | advmod |
| 12 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scent | amod |
| 13 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 savory | case |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 savory | compound |
| 16 | savory | savory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scent | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 wind | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 savory | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people's appetites | keen property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | appetites = appetite | a quick scent | for anything savory in the wind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=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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