Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 30
Though it was midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble front, yet its snowy whiteness, and its fantastic style of architecture, made it look unreal, like the frost work on a window pane, or like the shapes of castles which one sees among the clouds by moonlight.
Who acts: palace, midday, snowy whiteness, one, moonlight · What happens: be, shine, make, look, see, cloud · To what, where: midday, marble front, 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 (palace, midday, snowy whiteness, one), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 midday | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midday | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midday | cop |
| 4 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shone | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 midday | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sun | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 midday | conj |
| 9 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 9 shone | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 front | det |
| 13 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 front | amod |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shone | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 whiteness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 whiteness | amod |
| 19 | whiteness | whiteness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 style | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 style | cc |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 style | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fantastic | fantastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 style | amod |
| 24 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whiteness | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 architecture | case |
| 26 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 style | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whiteness | punct |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shone | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | xcomp |
| 31 | unreal | unreal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 look | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 work | punct |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 work | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 work | det |
| 35 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 work | compound |
| 36 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 pane | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 pane | det |
| 39 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pane | compound |
| 40 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 work | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 shapes | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 shapes | cc |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 shapes | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shapes | det |
| 45 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pane | appos |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 castles | case |
| 47 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 shapes | nmod |
| 48 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sees | nsubj |
| 50 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 shapes | parataxis |
| 51 | among | among | ADP | _ | 53 clouds | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 clouds | det |
| 53 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 sees | obl |
| 54 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 moonlight | case |
| 55 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 clouds | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | palace | midday and the sun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | midday and the sun | the marble front | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over front=Location | |||
| 3 | make | past | palace's snowy whiteness | palace | like the frost work on a window pane | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | infinitive | palace not said here | unreal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | present | which one | among the clouds by moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | cloud | moonlight | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: by=agent |
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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