Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 69
Footsteps, it is true, seemed to be passing and repassing, in other parts of the palace.
Who acts: Footsteps · What happens: be, seem, pass, repass · To what, where: other parts
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 (Footsteps), 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 | Footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Footsteps | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 passing | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 passing | aux |
| 10 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 repassing | cc |
| 12 | repassing | repass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 parts | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 parts | case |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 parts | amod |
| 16 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 repassing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 parts | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Footsteps | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | repass | gerund | other parts of the palace | 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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