Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 90

They could not help suspecting that the purple bird must be aware of something mischievous that would befall them at the palace, and the knowledge of which affected its airy spirit with a human sympathy and sorrow.

Who acts: cliffs, purple bird, something mischievous, knowledge · What happens: not help, suspect, be, befall, affect · To what, where: cliffs, palace, airy spirit

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 (cliffs, purple bird, something mischievous, knowledge), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 help	csubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 aware	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 aware	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 aware	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 aware	cop
12	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suspecting	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mischievous	case
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 mischievous	compound
15	mischievous	mischievou	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 aware	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 befall	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 befall	aux
18	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 mischievous	acl:relcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 befall	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 befall	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 affected	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 affected	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 knowledge	det
26	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 affected	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 knowledge	nmod
29	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 spirit	nmod:poss
31	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spirit	amod
32	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 affected	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 sympathy	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sympathy	det
35	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sympathy	amod
36	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 affected	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sorrow	cc
38	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sympathy	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not help	could	cliffs = cliff				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	suspect	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	must	the purple bird			of something mischievous; aware property	tree rules
4	befall	would	something mischievous	cliffs = cliff	the palace		tree rules
5	affect	past	the knowledge	knowledge's airy spirit		with a human sympathy and sorrow	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer

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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