Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 55
At last, when the swinish uproar resounded through the palace, and when he saw the image of a hog in the marble basin, he thought it best to hasten back to the vessel, and inform the wise Ulysses of these marvelous occurrences.
Who acts: swinish uproar, uproar · What happens: resound, see, think, hasten back, inform, image · To what, where: palace, image, vessel, wise Ulysses, hog
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 (swinish uproar, uproar), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 resounded | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 resounded | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 uproar | det |
| 6 | swinish | swinish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 uproar | amod |
| 7 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resounded | nsubj |
| 8 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 last | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resounded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 image | det |
| 18 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hog | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hog | det |
| 21 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 image | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 basin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 basin | det |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 basin | compound |
| 25 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hog | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 thought | nsubj |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 best | expl |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hasten | mark |
| 32 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 thought | xcomp |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 hasten | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 vessel | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 vessel | det |
| 36 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hasten | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 inform | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 inform | cc |
| 39 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hasten | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Ulysses | det |
| 41 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Ulysses | amod |
| 42 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 inform | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 occurrences | case |
| 44 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 occurrences | det |
| 45 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 occurrences | amod |
| 46 | occurrences | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 Ulysses | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | participle | the swinish uproar | the palace | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | uproar | the image of a hog in the marble basin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | uproar | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hasten back | to-infinitive | uproar not said here | the vessel | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to vessel=Destination | ||||
| 5 | inform speech: other | infinitive | uproar not said here | the wise Ulysses of this marvelous occurrences | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ulysses=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | image | a hog in the marble basin | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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