Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 44
They tried to groan and beg for mercy, but forthwith emitted the most awful grunting and squealing that ever came out of swinish throats.
Who acts: hogs · What happens: try, groan, beg, emit, come out · To what, where: awful grunting, swinish throats
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 groan | mark |
| 4 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beg | cc |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 groan | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 mercy | case |
| 8 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beg | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 emitted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 emitted | cc |
| 11 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 12 emitted | advmod |
| 12 | emitted | emit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grunting | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 awful | advmod |
| 15 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grunting | amod |
| 16 | grunting | grunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 emitted | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 squealing | cc |
| 18 | squealing | squealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grunting | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 came | obl |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grunting | acl:relcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 throats | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 throats | case |
| 24 | swinish | swinish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 throats | amod |
| 25 | throats | throat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | hogs = hog | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | groan not said to happen | to-infinitive | hogs = hog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | infinitive | hogs = hog not said here | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 4 | emit | past | hogs = hog not said here | the awful grunting and squealing | forthwith property | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source grunting=Theme | |||
| 5 | come out | past | the awful grunting and squealing | swinish throats | ever | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient throat=Result |
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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