Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 29
At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to be very large and lofty, with a great number of airy pinnacles upon its roof.
Who acts: Cyclops, palace · What happens: come, prove, be, sight · To what, where: length, palace
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 (Cyclops, palace), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sight | amod |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proved | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 proved | nsubj |
| 13 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 large | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 large | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 large | advmod |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proved | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lofty | cc |
| 19 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 large | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 number | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 number | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 large | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pinnacles | case |
| 26 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pinnacles | amod |
| 27 | pinnacles | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 roof | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 roof | nmod:poss |
| 30 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pinnacles | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Cyclops | length | within full sight of the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | prove | past | the palace | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the palace not said here | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the palace not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | sight | the palace | nom sight «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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