Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 9

In the loftiest seats of dignity, on royal thrones, they could think of nothing but their greedy appetite, which was the portion of their nature that they shared with wolves and swine; so that they resembled those vilest of animals far more than they did kings--if, indeed, kings were what they ought to be.

Who acts: seats, kings · What happens: think, be, share, resemble, do · To what, where: loftiest seats, portion, vilest, kings

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 (seats, kings), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 seats	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seats	det
3	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 seats	amod
4	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 think	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dignity	case
6	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seats	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thrones	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 thrones	case
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thrones	amod
10	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seats	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seats	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 think	obl
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 appetite	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 appetite	nmod:poss
19	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 appetite	amod
20	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 portion	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 portion	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 portion	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 portion	det
25	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 nature	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nature	nmod:poss
28	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 portion	nmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 shared	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shared	nsubj
31	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 portion	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 wolves	case
33	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shared	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 swine	cc
35	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wolves	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 resembled	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 resembled	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 resembled	nsubj
40	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 think	parataxis
41	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 vilest	det
42	vilest	vile	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 resembled	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 animals	case
44	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 vilest	nmod
45	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 more	advmod
46	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 resembled	advmod
47	than	than	SCONJ	_	49 did	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 did	nsubj
49	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 resembled	advcl
50	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 did	obj
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 what	punct
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 what	mark
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 if	punct
54	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	58 what	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 indeed	punct
56	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 what	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 what	cop
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 think	conj
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 ought	nsubj
60	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 what	acl:relcl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 be	mark
62	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 ought	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	could	seats = seat		the loftiest seats of dignity and royal thrones	of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the portion		of seats's nature	tree rules
3	share	past	seats = seat			with wolves and swine	tree rules
4	resemble	past	seats = seat	that vilest of animals			tree rules
5	do	past	seats = seat	kings			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	kings			indeed property	tree rules
7	be	to-infinitive	kings not said here				vn exist-47.1 «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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