Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 88

Then it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked around at them, as if exceedingly anxious that they should return whence they came.

Who acts: weep, cliffs · What happens: fly, look around, return, come · To what, where: edge

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 (weep, cliffs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cliff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliff	det
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
13	around	around	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 anxious	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 anxious	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 anxious	mark
19	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 return	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 return	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 return	aux
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anxious	advcl
25	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 return	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	weep	the edge of the cliff	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards edge=Destination
2	look around	past	weep not said here			at cliffs = cliff; around property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	return	should	cliffs = cliff				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	cliffs = cliff			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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