Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 50

"But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade. "

Who acts: you, shuttle, comrade, loom · What happens: listen, pass, fro, say, buzz · To what, where: buzz · Speech: someone speaks here

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, shuttle, comrade, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 listen	cc
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 voices	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 voices	det
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voices	amod
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 maidens	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 maidens	det
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 voices	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 buzz	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 buzz	cc
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 buzz	det
15	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 loom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 loom	det
18	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 buzz	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passes	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 passes	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shuttle	det
22	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passes	nsubj
23	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 passes	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fro	cc
26	fro	fro	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	parataxis
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 comrade	det
31	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	imperative	you not said here	that buzz of the loom	to the pleasant voices of that maidens	tree rules
2	pass in a quote	present	the shuttle			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	another comrade			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	buzz in a quote		the loom			nom buzz «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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