Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 8
Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, which looked more and more beautiful the nearer they approached it.
Who acts: comrades, new glimpses · What happens: catch, look, approach, glimpse · To what, where: little, palace, marble palace
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 (comrades, new glimpses), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | obl |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glimpses | amod |
| 7 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 10 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glimpses | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | advcl |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nearer | det |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advcl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 approached | nsubj |
| 22 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 nearer | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 approached | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | comrades = comrade | every little | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | new glimpses of the marble palace | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | approach | past | comrades = comrade | palace | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glimpse | the marble palace | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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