Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 45
A woman's voice was singing melodiously in another room of the palace, and with her voice was mingled the noise of a loom, at which she was probably seated, weaving a rich texture of cloth, and intertwining the high and low sweetness of her voice into a rich tissue of harmony.
Who acts: voice, loom · What happens: sing, mingle, seat, weave, intertwine, noise · To what, where: room, noise, voice, rich texture, high sweetness, rich tissue
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 (voice, loom), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 woman | case |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 singing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 singing | aux |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | melodiously | melodiously | ADV | _ | 6 singing | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 singing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mingled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mingled | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mingled | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mingled | aux:pass |
| 20 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 singing | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mingled | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 loom | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 loom | det |
| 25 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 noise | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seated | punct |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 seated | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seated | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seated | aux:pass |
| 31 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 32 seated | advmod |
| 32 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mingled | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 weaving | punct |
| 34 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 singing | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 texture | det |
| 36 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 texture | amod |
| 37 | texture | texture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 weaving | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 cloth | case |
| 39 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 texture | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 intertwining | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 intertwining | cc |
| 42 | intertwining | intertwine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 singing | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 sweetness | det |
| 44 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 sweetness | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 low | cc |
| 46 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 high | conj |
| 47 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intertwining | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 voice | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 voice | nmod:poss |
| 50 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sweetness | nmod |
| 51 | into | into | ADP | _ | 54 tissue | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 tissue | det |
| 53 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 tissue | amod |
| 54 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 intertwining | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 harmony | case |
| 56 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 tissue | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | a woman's voice | another room of the palace | melodiously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 2 | mingle | past · passive | the noise of a loom | with voice's voice | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: noise=Patient with voice=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | seat | past · passive | voice | probably property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 4 | weave | gerund | a woman's voice not said here | a rich texture of cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texture=Product | ||||
| 5 | intertwine | gerund | a woman's voice not said here | the high sweetness of voice's voice | a rich tissue of harmony | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetness=Patient | |||
| 6 | noise | a loom | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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