Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 27
"No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scent from the palace kitchen was now very perceptible. "
Who acts: comrades, scent · What happens: answer, snuff, be · To what, where: air
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 (comrades, scent), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 9 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 snuffing | punct |
| 11 | snuffing | snuff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snuffing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perceptible | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 perceptible | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scent | det |
| 18 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 perceptible | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 kitchen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kitchen | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kitchen | compound |
| 22 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scent | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 perceptible | cop |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 perceptible | advmod |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 perceptible | advmod |
| 26 | perceptible | perceptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 snuffing | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Eurylochus's comrades | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | snuff | gerund | Eurylochus's comrades not said here | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the scent from the palace kitchen | now | perceptible property | tree rules |
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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