Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 41

Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty hogs sitting on the same number of golden thrones.

Who acts: behavior, one hogs · What happens: utter, wave, stamp, strike, behold, sit · To what, where: last words, wand, foot, each, comrades, human shape

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 (behavior, one hogs), 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	Uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 waved	advcl
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Uttering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Uttering	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waved	nsubj
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wand	nmod:poss
9	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
12	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 struck	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stamping	obj
15	imperiously	imperiously	ADV	_	12 stamping	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stamping	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 struck	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 guests	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 guests	det
20	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 each	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 struck	aux:pass
22	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 waved	conj
23	aghast	aghast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 struck	xcomp
24	at	at	SCONJ	_	25 beholding	mark
25	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 struck	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 comrades	punct
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 comrades	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 comrades	nmod:poss
30	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 beholding	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 shape	case
32	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 shape	amod
33	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 comrades	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hogs	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hogs	nummod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 twenty	cc
37	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 one	conj
38	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 comrades	conj
39	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 hogs	acl
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 number	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 number	det
42	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 number	amod
43	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sitting	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 thrones	case
45	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 thrones	amod
46	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 number	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	gerund	behavior not said here	this last words			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	wave	past	behavior	behavior's wand			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient
3	stamp	gerund		behavior's foot		imperiously property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination
4	strike	past · passive		each		aghast property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	behold	gerund		serpent's comrades and one hogs	human shape		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus
6	sit	gerund	one hogs not said here		the same number of golden thrones		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on number=Location

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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