Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 1

Then you might have seen the guests nodding, winking with one eye, and leaning from one throne to another, to communicate their satisfaction in hoarse whispers.

Who acts: you, guests · What happens: see, nod, wink, lean, communicate, satisfy · To what, where: guests, one throne, satisfaction, hoarse whispers

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guests), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seen	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guests	det
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	obj
8	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 guests	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 winking	punct
10	winking	wink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 nodding	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eye	nummod
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaning	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 leaning	cc
16	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 nodding	advcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 throne	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 throne	nummod
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaning	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 leaning	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 communicate	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 communicate	mark
24	communicate	communicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leaning	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 satisfaction	nmod:poss
26	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 communicate	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 whispers	case
28	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 whispers	amod
29	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 communicate	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	might · perfect	you	the guests		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guest=Stimulus
2	nod	gerund	the guests not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wink	gerund	the guests not said here				with one eye	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lean	gerund	the guests not said here		one throne		to another	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	communicate	to-infinitive	the guests not said here	guests's satisfaction	hoarse whispers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Topic
6	satisfy		guests = guest					nom satisfaction «feeling 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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