Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 86

He wore a short cloak and a sort of cap that seemed to be furnished with a pair of wings; and from the lightness of his step, you would have supposed that there might likewise be wings on his feet.

Who acts: Ulysses, cap · What happens: wear, seem, furnish, suppose, be, sort · To what, where: short cloak, lightness, you, wings, feet, cap

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 (Ulysses, cap), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloak	det
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloak	amod
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sort	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sort	det
8	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cloak	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cap	case
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sort	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cap	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 furnished	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 furnished	aux:pass
15	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seemed	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 pair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pair	det
18	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 furnished	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wings	case
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pair	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lightness	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lightness	cc
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 lightness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lightness	det
25	lightness	lightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 step	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 step	nmod:poss
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lightness	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 supposed	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 supposed	nsubj:pass
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 supposed	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 supposed	aux
33	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wore	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 might	mark
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 might	expl
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 supposed	conj
37	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	39 wings	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 wings	cop
39	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 might	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 feet	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 feet	nmod:poss
42	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 wings	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Ulysses	a short cloak and a sort of cap	the lightness of Ulysses's step		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme from lightness=Source
2	seem	past	cap				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	furnish	to-infinitive · passive	cap not said here			with a pair of wings	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with pair=Theme
4	suppose	would · perfect · passive		you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
5	is a	infinitive		wings	Ulysses's feet	likewise property	tree rules
6	sort			cap			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	step		Ulysses				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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