Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 52

Ah, before that weary siege of Troy, I used to hear the buzzing loom and the women's voices under my own roof.

Who acts: I · What happens: use, hear · To what, where: buzzing loom

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 (I), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	before	before	ADP	_	6 siege	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 siege	det
5	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 siege	amod
6	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Troy	case
8	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 siege	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 siege	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 loom	det
15	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loom	compound
16	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 voices	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 women	det
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 voices	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 women	case
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	conj
22	under	under	ADP	_	25 roof	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 roof	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 roof	amod
25	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 voices	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	I				before that weary siege of Troy		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hear	to-infinitive	I not said here	the buzzing loom					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer loom=Stimulus

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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