Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 63
In the short moment while the folding doors opened and closed again, he caught a glimpse of a very beautiful woman rising from the loom, and coming to meet the poor weather-beaten wanderers, with a hospitable smile, and her hand stretched out in welcome.
Who acts: Eurylochus, beautiful woman · What happens: open, close, catch, rise, come, meet · To what, where: folding doors, glimpse, loom, poor beaten wanderers, hand, beautiful woman
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 (Eurylochus, beautiful woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 doors | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doors | det |
| 7 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doors | compound |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moment | nmod |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 doors | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 closed | cc |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 opened | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 closed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 glimpse | det |
| 17 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glimpse | nmod |
| 23 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 woman | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 loom | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 loom | det |
| 26 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rising | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coming | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 coming | cc |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 caught | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 meet | mark |
| 31 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 coming | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wanderers | det |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wanderers | amod |
| 34 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 beaten | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 weather | punct |
| 36 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 wanderers | amod |
| 37 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 meet | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 smile | punct |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 smile | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 smile | det |
| 41 | hospitable | hospitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 smile | amod |
| 42 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 meet | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 stretched | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 stretched | cc |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hand | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 caught | conj |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 stretched | compound:prt |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 welcome | case |
| 50 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stretched | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | the folding doors not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | close | participle | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | Eurylochus | a glimpse of a beautiful woman | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | |||
| 4 | rise | gerund | a beautiful woman not said here | the loom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from loom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | Eurylochus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | meet | to-infinitive | Eurylochus not said here | the poor beaten wanderers | with a hospitable smile | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme with smile=Instrument | |||
| 7 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | stretch out | participle · passive | woman's hand | in welcome | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in welcome=Topic | ||||
| 9 | glimpse | a beautiful woman | nom glimpse «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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