Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 22
Then they quickened their pace, and capered for joy at the thought of the savory banquet at which they hoped to be guests.
Who acts: fellows · What happens: quicken, caper, hope, be, think · To what, where: pace, thought, savory banquet, guests
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 (fellows), 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 quickened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 quickened | nsubj |
| 3 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quickened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 capered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 capered | cc |
| 8 | capered | caper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 quickened | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capered | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 thought | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thought | det |
| 13 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capered | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 banquet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 banquet | det |
| 16 | savory | savory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 banquet | amod |
| 17 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hoped | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hoped | nsubj |
| 21 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 banquet | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 guests | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 guests | cop |
| 24 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hoped | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quickened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quicken | past | fellows = fellow | fellows's pace | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | |||
| 2 | caper | participle | fellows = fellow not said here | the thought of the savory banquet | for joy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hope | past | fellows = fellow | the savory banquet | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | fellows = fellow not said here | guests | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think | the savory banquet | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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