Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 61
Then he told Ulysses all that had happened, as far as he knew it, and added that he suspected the beautiful woman to be a vile enchantress, and the marble palace, magnificent as it looked, to be only a dismal cavern in reality.
Who acts: Eurylochus, that, face · What happens: tell, happen, know, add, suspect, be · To what, where: Ulysses, face, beautiful woman, vile enchantress, dismal cavern, reality · 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 (Eurylochus, that, face), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 far | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 happened | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 far | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 added | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 added | cc |
| 18 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 suspected | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 suspected | nsubj |
| 21 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 added | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woman | amod |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suspected | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 enchantress | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 enchantress | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 enchantress | det |
| 28 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 enchantress | amod |
| 29 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 woman | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 palace | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 palace | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 33 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 palace | amod |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 magnificent | punct |
| 36 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 palace | amod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 looked | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 looked | nsubj |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 magnificent | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cavern | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 cavern | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 cavern | cop |
| 43 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 cavern | advmod |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 cavern | det |
| 45 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 cavern | amod |
| 46 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 palace | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 reality | case |
| 48 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cavern | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Eurylochus | Ulysses | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ulysses=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | far property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Eurylochus | face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Eurylochus not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | suspect | past | Eurylochus | the beautiful woman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent woman=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | a vile enchantress | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | past | face | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | is a | to-infinitive | Eurylochus not said here | a dismal cavern | reality | 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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