Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 4

The words were hardly out of his mouth, before the purple bird flew away, crying, "Peep, peep, pe--weep," more dolorously than ever.

Who acts: words, purple bird · What happens: be, fly away, cry · To what, where: mouth, Peep

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 (words, purple bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	cop
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 mouth	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
12	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bird	amod
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crying	punct
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 flew	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Peep	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Peep	punct
20	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crying	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 peep	punct
22	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Peep	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pe	punct
24	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Peep	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 weep	punct
26	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pe	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 more	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 more	punct
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 crying	obj
30	dolorously	dolorously	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 dolorously	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the words		fowl's mouth	hardly property	tree rules
2	fly away	past	the purple bird			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the purple bird not said here	Peep and peep and pe and weep			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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