Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 2
Just one plump morsel, melting away between the teeth.
Who acts: one plump morsel · What happens: melt away
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 (one plump morsel), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 morsel | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morsel | nummod |
| 3 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morsel | amod |
| 4 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 melting | punct |
| 6 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 morsel | acl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 melting | advmod |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 teeth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teeth | det |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 melting | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 morsel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt away | gerund | one plump morsel not said here | between the teeth; away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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