Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 46

By and by, the song came to an end; and then, all at once, there were several feminine voices, talking airily and cheerfully, with now and then a merry burst of laughter, such as you may always hear when three or four young women sit at work together.

Who acts: you, three young women · What happens: come, be, talk, hear, sit, burst · To what, where: end, several feminine voices, work, laughter

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 (you, three young women), 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	By	by	ADP	_	6 song	case
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 by	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 By	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 voices	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 then	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 voices	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 once	punct
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 once	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 then	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 were	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 were	expl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 voices	cop
21	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voices	amod
22	feminine	feminine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voices	amod
23	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 talking	punct
25	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
26	airily	airily	ADV	_	25 talking	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cheerfully	cc
28	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	26 airily	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 now	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 now	case
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 talking	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 burst	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 burst	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 burst	det
35	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 burst	amod
36	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 now	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 laughter	case
38	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 burst	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hear	punct
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	45 hear	mark
41	as	as	ADP	_	40 such	fixed
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 hear	nsubj
43	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 hear	aux
44	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	45 hear	advmod
45	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 burst	conj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 sit	advmod
47	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 women	nummod
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 four	cc
49	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 three	conj
50	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 women	amod
51	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 sit	nsubj
52	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 hear	advcl
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 work	case
54	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sit	obl
55	together	together	ADV	_	52 sit	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				to a end	by the song	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		several feminine voices		then		tree rules
3	talk	gerund					airily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	may	you				always property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	sit	present	three young women		work		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location
6	burst			laughter				nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient

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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