Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 46

Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what little red eyes, half buried in fat! and what long snouts, instead of Grecian noses!

Who acts: pendulous ears, little red eyes · What happens: have, bury, snout · To what, where: little red eyes, fat

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 (pendulous ears, little red eyes), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Dear	iobj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 had	obj
5	pendulous	pendulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ears	amod
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	nsubj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dear	parataxis
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 had	obj
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 what	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 buried	punct
15	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 buried	advmod
16	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eyes	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 fat	case
18	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 buried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 snouts	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 snouts	nsubj
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 snouts	amod
23	snouts	snout	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eyes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 noses	punct
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 noses	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 noses	amod
28	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eyes	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	pendulous ears				tree rules
2	bury	participle		little red eyes and long snouts and Grecian noses not said here	fat	half property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in fat=Destination
3	snout		little red eyes and long snouts and Grecian noses				tree rules

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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