Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 91
The wicked enchantress (whose name is Circe, the sister of King Aetes) dwells in the marble palace which you see yonder among the trees.
Who acts: name, enchantress dwells, Circe · What happens: be, see, name · To what, where: Circe, marble palace
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 (name, enchantress dwells, Circe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enchantress | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 enchantress | amod |
| 3 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwells | compound |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Circe | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Circe | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Circe | cop |
| 8 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 enchantress | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sister | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Circe | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Aetes | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Aetes | compound |
| 14 | Aetes | Aetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Circe | punct |
| 16 | dwells | dwell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 see | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | compound |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 see | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 23 see | advmod |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 trees | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trees | det |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 see | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Circe's name | Circe | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | enchantress dwells | the marble palace | among the trees; yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | name | Circe | nom name «communication 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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