Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 51
What a domestic, household, home-like sound it is!
Who acts: shuttle · What happens: be · To what, where: like sound
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 (shuttle), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 domestic | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 domestic | det |
| 3 | domestic | domestic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 household | punct |
| 5 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 domestic | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sound | punct |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | amod |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 domestic | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 is | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sound | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 domestic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | shuttle | like sound not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sound=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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