Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 73
Chancing to cast his eyes at the fountain, he saw that it did not shift its shape, as formerly, nor looked either like a long-robed man, or a lion, a tiger, a wolf, or an ass.
Who acts: Eurylochus, feast · What happens: chance, cast, see, not shift, look, robe · To what, where: eyes, fountain, lion, shape · Speech: someone speaks here
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, feast), 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 | Chancing | chance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 cast | mark |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Chancing | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cast | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fountain | det |
| 8 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chancing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 shift | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shift | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shift | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 shift | advmod |
| 16 | shift | shift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shift | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 formerly | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 formerly | case |
| 21 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 16 shift | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 looked | cc |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 25 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 looked | advmod |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 robed | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 long | punct |
| 30 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lion | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 lion | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lion | det |
| 35 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tiger | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 tiger | det |
| 38 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lion | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wolf | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 wolf | det |
| 41 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lion | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ass | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 ass | cc |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 ass | det |
| 45 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | gerund | Eurylochus not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cast | to-infinitive | Eurylochus not said here | Eurylochus's eyes | the fountain | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at fountain=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | Eurylochus | a lion and a tiger and a wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not shift | past · do-support | feast | feast's shape | formerly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer shape=Patient | |||
| 5 | look | past | Eurylochus not said here | like a robed man; either property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | robe | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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