Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 76

It happened to Ulysses, just as before, that, when he had gone a few steps from the edge of the cliff, the purple bird came fluttering towards him, crying, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" and using all the art it could to persuade him to go no farther.

Who acts: It, that, purple bird, bird, Eurylochus · What happens: happen, go, come, flutter, cry, use · To what, where: Ulysses, few steps, edge, Peep, art, Eurylochus

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 (It, that, purple bird, bird), 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	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Ulysses	case
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 before	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 before	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 before	advmod
8	before	before	ADV	_	2 happened	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 gone	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 gone	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 steps	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 steps	amod
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gone	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steps	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cliff	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cliff	det
24	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 edge	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
27	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bird	amod
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 steps	acl:relcl
30	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 came	xcomp
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fluttering	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 crying	punct
34	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 fluttering	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Peep	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Peep	punct
37	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fluttering	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 peep	punct
39	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Peep	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pe	punct
41	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Peep	conj
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 weep	punct
43	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Peep	appos
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 weep	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 weep	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 using	cc
47	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 fluttering	conj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 art	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 art	det
50	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 using	obj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 persuade	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 persuade	aux
53	to	to	PART	_	54 persuade	mark
54	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 art	acl:relcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 persuade	obj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 go	mark
57	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 persuade	xcomp
58	no	no	ADV	_	59 farther	advmod
59	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	57 go	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It		Ulysses		before property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	that	a few steps		the edge of the cliff		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
3	come	past	the purple bird	a few steps not said here				tree rules
4	flutter	gerund	the purple bird not said here	Peep and peep and pe			towards Eurylochus	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	gerund	the purple bird not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	use	gerund	the purple bird not said here	all art				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Patient
7	persuade	could	bird	Eurylochus				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
8	go	to-infinitive	Eurylochus not said here				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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