Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 43
It was either magic or some very curious machinery that caused the gushing waterspout to assume all these forms.
Who acts: water, curious machinery · What happens: be, cause, gush, assume · To what, where: magic, gushing waterspout, forms
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 (water, curious machinery), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 magic | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 magic | cop |
| 3 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 4 magic | cc:preconj |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 machinery | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 machinery | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 curious | advmod |
| 8 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 machinery | amod |
| 9 | machinery | machinery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 magic | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 machinery | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waterspout | det |
| 13 | gushing | gush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 waterspout | amod |
| 14 | waterspout | waterspout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 assume | mark |
| 16 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 waterspout | acl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 forms | det:predet |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 forms | det |
| 19 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 assume | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 magic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | water | magic or some curious machinery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | some curious machinery | the gushing waterspout | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition waterspout=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gush | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | assume | to-infinitive | some curious machinery not said here | all forms | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
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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