Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 82
It hovered about Eurylochus, and almost brushed his face with its wings.
Who acts: behavior · What happens: hover, brush · To what, where: face
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 (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 | 2 hovered | nsubj |
| 2 | hovered | hover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 Eurylochus | case |
| 4 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hovered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brushed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brushed | cc |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 brushed | advmod |
| 8 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hovered | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brushed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wings | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brushed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hover | past | behavior | about Eurylochus | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about eurylochus=Location | ||||
| 2 | brush | past | behavior not said here | Eurylochus's face | with behavior's wings; almost property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with wing=Theme |
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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