Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 77
She took the hand of the foremost among them, and bade him and the whole party welcome.
Who acts: woman · What happens: take · To what, where: hand
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 foremost | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 foremost | det |
| 7 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | acl |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 foremost | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 him | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 him | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | compound |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 welcome | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 welcome | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 welcome | amod |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 welcome | compound |
| 18 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | woman | the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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