Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 19
And after they had drank, they grew still merrier than before.
Who acts: images · What happens: drink, grow
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (images), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 drank | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drank | aux |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 grew | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drank | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 merrier | advmod |
| 10 | merrier | merry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 before | case |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 merrier | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · perfect | images = image | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | images = image | merry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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