Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 35
Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the middle of the saloon, and stretching out a slender rod (it had been all the while in her hand, although they never noticed it till this moment), she turned it from one guest to another, until each had felt it pointed at himself.
Who acts: beautiful woman, rod, gormandizers, woman · What happens: take, stretch out, be, not notice, turn, feel · To what, where: stand, middle, slender rod, while, hand, rod
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 (beautiful woman, rod, gormandizers, woman), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 saloon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 saloon | det |
| 13 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 middle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretching | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stretching | cc |
| 16 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretching | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rod | det |
| 19 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rod | amod |
| 20 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | obj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 while | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 while | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 while | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 while | cop |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 while | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 while | det |
| 27 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretching | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 while | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 noticed | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 35 noticed | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 noticed | nsubj |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 noticed | advmod |
| 35 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 noticed | obj |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 moment | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 moment | det |
| 39 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 noticed | obl |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 noticed | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 turned | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 turned | nsubj |
| 43 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | parataxis |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 turned | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 guest | case |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 guest | nummod |
| 47 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 turned | obl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 another | case |
| 49 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 guest | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 felt | punct |
| 51 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 54 felt | mark |
| 52 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 felt | aux |
| 54 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 turned | conj |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 pointed | nsubj |
| 56 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 felt | ccomp |
| 57 | at | at | ADP | _ | 58 himself | case |
| 58 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 56 pointed | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the beautiful woman | woman's stand | the middle of the saloon | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stand=Value in middle=Location | ||
| 2 | stretch out | gerund | the beautiful woman not said here | a slender rod | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | rod | all while | woman's hand | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not notice | past | gormandizers = gormandizer | rod | moment | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | turn | past | woman | rod | from one guest to another | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from guest=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | feel | past · perfect · passive | each | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | point | past | rod | at Ulysses | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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