Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 65
They were only less beautiful than the lady who seemed to be their mistress.
Who acts: gestures, lady · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: mistress
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 (gestures, lady), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 less | advmod |
| 4 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lady | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mistress | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mistress | cop |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | gestures = gesture | than the lady; beautiful, less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the lady | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | gestures's mistress | tree rules |
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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