Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 81

It was the same pretty little bird, with the purple wings and body, the yellow legs, the golden collar round its neck, and the crown-like tuft upon its head, whose behavior had so much surprised Ulysses.

Who acts: edge, behavior · What happens: be, have · To what, where: same little bird, surprised Ulysses

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 (edge, behavior), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wings	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 wings	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wings	det
11	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wings	amod
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 body	cc
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wings	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 legs	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 legs	det
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bird	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 collar	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 collar	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 collar	amod
22	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 legs	nmod
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 neck	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 neck	nmod:poss
25	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 collar	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tuft	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tuft	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tuft	det
29	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 like	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 crown	punct
31	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tuft	amod
32	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	conj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tuft	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
37	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	38 behavior	nmod:poss
38	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tuft	conj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADV	_	42 surprised	advmod
42	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Ulysses	amod
43	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	edge	the same little bird and the yellow legs the golden collar round edge's neck and the like tuft upon edge's head					tree rules
2	have	past	behavior	surprised Ulysses					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ulysses=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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