Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 24

They sat on golden thrones, to be sure; but they behaved like pigs in a sty; and, if they had had their wits about them, they might have guessed that this was the opinion of their beautiful hostess and her maidens.

Who acts: sorts, this · What happens: sit, be, behave, have, guess · To what, where: golden thrones, sty, wits, opinion

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 (sorts, this), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 thrones	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thrones	amod
5	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 sure	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 behaved	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 behaved	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 behaved	nsubj
13	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 pigs	case
15	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 behaved	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sty	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sty	det
18	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 behaved	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wits	nmod:poss
27	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wits	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 guessed	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 guessed	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 guessed	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 guessed	aux
34	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 had	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 opinion	mark
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 opinion	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 opinion	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 opinion	det
39	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 guessed	advcl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 hostess	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hostess	nmod:poss
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hostess	amod
43	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 opinion	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 maidens	cc
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 maidens	nmod:poss
46	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 hostess	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	sorts = sort		golden thrones		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
2	is	to-infinitive	sorts = sort not said here			sure property	tree rules
3	behave	past	sorts = sort		a sty	like pigs	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like pig=Attribute
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	sorts = sort	sorts's wits		about wits = wit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
5	guess	might · perfect	sorts = sort				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	this	the opinion		of sorts's beautiful hostess and hostess's maidens	tree rules

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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