Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 43
It looked so intolerably absurd to see hogs on cushioned thrones, that they made haste to wallow down upon all fours, like other swine.
Who acts: cry, hogs, haste · What happens: look, see, cushion, make, wallow down · To what, where: hogs, cushioned thrones, haste
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 (cry, hogs, haste), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 absurd | advmod |
| 4 | intolerably | intolerably | ADV | _ | 5 absurd | advmod |
| 5 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 absurd | xcomp |
| 8 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 thrones | case |
| 10 | cushioned | cushion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 thrones | amod |
| 11 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hogs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 16 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wallow | mark |
| 18 | wallow | wallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 wallow | compound:prt |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 fours | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 fours | det |
| 22 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wallow | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swine | punct |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 swine | case |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 swine | amod |
| 26 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wallow | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | cry | absurd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | cry not said here | hogs | cushioned thrones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hog=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | cushion | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | past | hogs = hog | haste | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wallow down | to-infinitive | haste not said here | upon all fours; like other swine | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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