Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 81
So the voyagers examined the web of cloth which the beautiful woman had been weaving in her loom; and, to their vast astonishment, they saw their own figures perfectly represented in different colored threads.
Who acts: voyagers, cloth · What happens: examine, weave, see, represent, astonish, figure · To what, where: web, loom, own figures · 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 (voyagers, cloth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 examined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voyagers | det |
| 3 | voyagers | voyager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 examined | nsubj |
| 4 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 web | det |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 examined | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 web | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 weaving | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weaving | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 weaving | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 weaving | aux |
| 15 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 loom | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 loom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weaving | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 astonishment | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 24 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 astonishment | amod |
| 25 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 astonishment | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 examined | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 figures | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 figures | amod |
| 31 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 33 represented | advmod |
| 33 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 threads | case |
| 35 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 threads | amod |
| 36 | colored | colored | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 threads | compound |
| 37 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 represented | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | the voyagers | the web of cloth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | past · perfect · progressive | cloth | woman's loom | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loom=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past | voyagers = voyager | to voyagers's vast astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | represent | participle · passive | voyagers's own figures | in different colored threads; perfectly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in thread=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | astonish | voyagers = voyager | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | figure | voyagers = voyager | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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