Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 83

Certainly there lay some heavy anguish at the little bird's heart; and it was a sorrowful predicament that he could not, at least, have the consolation of telling what it was.

Who acts: you, heavy, bird, consolation · What happens: lay, anguish, be, have, tell · To what, where: heart, sorrowful predicament, consolation, least · 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 (you, heavy, bird, consolation), 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	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 heavy	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 anguish	nsubj
6	anguish	anguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	12 heart	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heart	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 bird	case
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anguish	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 predicament	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 predicament	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 predicament	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 predicament	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 predicament	det
18	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 predicament	amod
19	predicament	predicament	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 could	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 could	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 predicament	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 could	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 least	case
26	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 have	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 least	punct
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 consolation	det
30	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 telling	mark
32	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 consolation	acl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 telling	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 what	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here		there	certainly property	tree rules
2	anguish	present	some heavy		the little bird's heart		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	bird	a sorrowful predicament			tree rules
4	have	present		the consolation	least		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consolation=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	the consolation not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	bird	the consolation			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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