Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 87
"Peep, peep, pe--weep!" replied the bird, very sorrowfully.
Who acts: Peep · What happens: reply · To what, where: bird
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 (Peep), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peep | punct |
| 2 | Peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peep | punct |
| 4 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Peep | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pe | punct |
| 6 | pe | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Peep | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 weep | punct |
| 8 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Peep | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peep | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorrowfully | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 sorrowfully | advmod |
| 16 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Peep and peep and pe and weep | the bird | sorrowfully property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
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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