Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 81

"Peep!" answered the purple bird, very dolorously. "

Who acts: Peep · What happens: answer · To what, where: purple bird

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 (Peep), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peep	punct
2	Peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Peep	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peep	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dolorously	punct
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 dolorously	advmod
11	dolorously	dolorously	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Peep		the purple bird			dolorously property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality

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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