Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 15

And, once in a while, the strangers seemed to taste something that they did not like.

Who acts: strangers · What happens: seem, taste, not like · To what, where: something

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 (strangers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 once	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 seemed	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 once	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strangers	det
9	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 taste	mark
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seemed	xcomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 taste	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 like	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 something	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the strangers		once property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	taste	to-infinitive	the strangers not said here	something		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme something=Attribute
3	not like	past · do-support	strangers = stranger			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=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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