Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 51

It was a sight to bring tears into one's eyes (and I hope none of you will be cruel enough to laugh at it), to see the poor creatures go snuffing along, picking up here a cabbage leaf and there a turnip top, and rooting their noses in the earth for whatever they could find.

Who acts: door, I, none, poor creatures, turnip top, creatures · What happens: be, bring, hope, laugh, see, go · To what, where: sight, tears, eyes, door, cabbage leaf, noses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (door, I, none, poor creatures), 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	4 sight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sight	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sight	det
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sight	acl
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 hope	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hope	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hope	nsubj
15	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sight	parataxis
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 cruel	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 none	nmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cruel	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 cruel	cop
21	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hope	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 cruel	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 laugh	mark
24	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cruel	advcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 laugh	obl
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 hope	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 hope	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 creatures	det
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 creatures	amod
33	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 go	nsubj
34	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 see	ccomp
35	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 go	xcomp
36	along	along	ADV	_	35 snuffing	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 picking	punct
38	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 snuffing	advcl
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 picking	compound:prt
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 picking	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 leaf	det
42	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 leaf	compound
43	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 picking	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 there	cc
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 go	expl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 top	det
47	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 top	compound
48	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 there	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 rooting	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 rooting	cc
51	rooting	root	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 top	acl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 noses	nmod:poss
53	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 rooting	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 earth	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 earth	det
56	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rooting	obl
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 whatever	case
58	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 earth	nmod
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 find	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 find	aux
61	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 whatever	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	door	a sight			tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive		tears	one's eyes		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination
3	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	future	none			cruel, enough property	tree rules
5	laugh	to-infinitive	none not said here		door		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go	present	the poor creatures		there		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	snuff	gerund	the poor creatures not said here			along property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	pick up	gerund	the poor creatures not said here	a cabbage leaf	here		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Topic
10	root	gerund	a turnip top not said here	creatures's noses	the earth for whatever		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
11	find	could	creatures = creature				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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