Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 34
And the louder they all laughed, the more stupid and helpless did the two and twenty gormandizers look.
Who acts: men, two gormandizers · What happens: laugh, look
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 (men, two gormandizers), 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 | _ | 3 louder | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 louder | det |
| 3 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 louder | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stupid | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 stupid | advmod |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 louder | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 helpless | cc |
| 12 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stupid | conj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gormandizers | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 gormandizers | nummod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 twenty | cc |
| 17 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 two | conj |
| 18 | gormandizers | gormandizer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | nsubj |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 louder | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 louder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | men = man | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past · do-support | the two gormandizers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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