Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 70
Then there was a clatter of silver dishes, or golden ones, which made him imagine a rich feast in a splendid banqueting hall.
Who acts: clatter, golden ones, silver dishes · What happens: be, make, imagine, banquet, clatter · To what, where: clatter, rich feast, splendid banqueting hall
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 (clatter, golden ones, silver dishes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clatter | det |
| 5 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dishes | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dishes | compound |
| 8 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clatter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ones | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 ones | cc |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dishes | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ones | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feast | amod |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imagine | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hall | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hall | amod |
| 24 | banqueting | banquet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 hall | amod |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feast | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a clatter of silver dishes | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | golden ones | clatter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imagine | infinitive | clatter not said here | a rich feast | a splendid banqueting hall | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feast=Theme | |||
| 4 | banquet | gerund | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | clatter | silver dishes | nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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