Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 91
It was built in a perfect oval, and lighted from a crystal dome above.
What happens: build, light · To what, where: fourth, perfect oval, crystal dome
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: 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 | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 oval | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 oval | det |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oval | amod |
| 7 | oval | oval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lighted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lighted | cc |
| 10 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 dome | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dome | det |
| 13 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dome | amod |
| 14 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lighted | obl |
| 15 | above | above | ADV | _ | 14 dome | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | fourth | a perfect oval | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | a crystal dome | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from dome=Material |
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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