Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 44
But, before the strangers had time to look closely at this wonderful sight, their attention was drawn off by a very sweet and agreeable sound.
Who acts: strangers, sweet sound · What happens: have, look, draw off, attend · To what, where: attention
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 (strangers, sweet sound), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 drawn | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strangers | det |
| 5 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drawn | advcl |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 sight | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sight | amod |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 attention | nmod:poss |
| 17 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drawn | aux:pass |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 drawn | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 sound | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sound | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 sweet | advmod |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sound | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 agreeable | cc |
| 26 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sweet | conj |
| 27 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawn | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the strangers | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the strangers not said here | at this wonderful sight; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw off | past · passive | a sweet sound | strangers's attention | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | attend | strangers = stranger | nom attention «cognition 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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