Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 34

To their surprise and joy, however, these wild beasts merely capered around them, wagging their tails, offering their heads to be stroked and patted, and behaving just like so many well-bred house dogs, when they wish to express their delight at meeting their master, or their master's friends.

Who acts: beasts, clouds · What happens: caper, wag, offer, stroke, pat, behave · To what, where: wild beasts, tails, heads, bred house dogs, delight, master

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 (beasts, clouds), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 surprise	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 surprise	nmod:poss
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 capered	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 joy	cc
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surprise	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 surprise	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	13 capered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 beasts	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beasts	amod
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 capered	nsubj:pass
12	merely	merely	ADV	_	13 capered	advmod
13	capered	caper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	around	around	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 capered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wagging	punct
17	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 capered	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tails	nmod:poss
19	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wagging	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 offering	punct
21	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wagging	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heads	nmod:poss
23	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 offering	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 stroked	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 stroked	aux:pass
26	stroked	stroke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 offering	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 patted	cc
28	patted	pat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stroked	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 behaving	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 behaving	cc
31	behaving	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 capered	conj
32	just	just	ADV	_	40 dogs	advmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	40 dogs	case
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 many	advmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 dogs	nsubj
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 bred	advmod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 well	punct
38	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 dogs	amod
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dogs	compound
40	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 behaving	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wish	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 wish	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 wish	nsubj
44	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 dogs	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 express	mark
46	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 wish	xcomp
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 delight	nmod:poss
48	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 express	obj
49	at	at	SCONJ	_	50 meeting	mark
50	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 express	advcl
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 master	nmod:poss
52	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 meeting	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 friends	punct
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 friends	cc
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 master	nmod:poss
56	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 friends	nmod:poss
57	's	's	PART	_	56 master	case
58	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 express	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 capered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	caper	participle · passive		this wild beasts	to clouds's surprise and joy; around clouds = cloud; however, merely property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	wag	gerund		clouds's tails		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	offer	gerund		clouds's heads		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	stroke	to-infinitive · passive				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»
5	pat	participle				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	behave	gerund		bred house dogs		tree rules
7	breed	participle			well property	tree rules
8	wish	present	beasts = beast			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	express not said to happen	to-infinitive	beasts = beast not said here	clouds's delight	clouds's master's friends obl	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme
10	meet	gerund	beasts = beast not said here	clouds's master		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent
11	surprise		clouds = cloud			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
12	delight		clouds = cloud			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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