Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 74
It looked like nothing but a hog, which lay wallowing in the marble basin, and filled it from brim to brim.
Who acts: feast, hog · What happens: look, lie, wallow, fill, brim · To what, where: marble basin, feast, brim
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 (feast, hog), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 hog | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hog | det |
| 7 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hog | acl:relcl |
| 11 | wallowing | wallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 basin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 basin | det |
| 14 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 basin | compound |
| 15 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wallowing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 filled | cc |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 filled | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 brim | case |
| 21 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 brim | mark |
| 23 | brim | brim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 filled | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | feast | like nothing | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | a hog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wallow | gerund | a hog not said here | the marble basin | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | feast not said here | feast | brim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | brim | to-infinitive | feast not said here | 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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