Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 32
In short, they all left off eating, and leaned back on their thrones, with such a stupid and helpless aspect as made them ridiculous to behold.
Who acts: guzzlers, stupid aspect · What happens: leave off, eat, learn back, make · To what, where: short, thrones, guzzlers
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 (guzzlers, stupid aspect), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 they | det |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 left | compound:prt |
| 8 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 left | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaned | cc |
| 11 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | parataxis |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 leaned | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 thrones | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 thrones | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 aspect | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 aspect | det |
| 20 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 aspect | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 helpless | cc |
| 22 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stupid | conj |
| 23 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 made | advmod |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaned | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 behold | case |
| 29 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 27 ridiculous | discourse |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | guzzlers = guzzler | short | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | guzzlers = guzzler not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | learn back | past | guzzlers's thrones | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | such stupid aspect | guzzlers = guzzler | ridiculous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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