Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 76
As soon as the beautiful woman saw them, she arose from the loom, as I have told you, and came forward, smiling, and stretching out her hand.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: see, arise, tell, come forward, smile, stretch out · To what, where: friends, loom, you, hand · 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 (woman, I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arose | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 arose | nsubj |
| 11 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 loom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 loom | det |
| 14 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arose | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 told | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 arose | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 smiling | punct |
| 26 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 came | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stretching | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stretching | cc |
| 29 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 stretching | compound:prt |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hand | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stretching | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | friends = friend | as the beautiful woman; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus as woman=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | woman | the loom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come forward | past | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | stretch out | gerund | woman's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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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