Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 93

"That little bird, which met me at the edge of the cliff," exclaimed Ulysses; "was he a human being once?"

Who acts: little bird, Ulysses · What happens: meet, exclaim, be · To what, where: Ulysses, edge · 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 (little bird, Ulysses), 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	_	7 met	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bird	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 met	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cliff	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cliff	det
14	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 edge	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	conj
18	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 exclaimed	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 once	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 once	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 once	cop
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 once	nsubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 once	det
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 once	amod
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 once	cop
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 met	advmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet in a quote	past	that little bird	Ulysses	the edge of the cliff		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Ulysses				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	Ulysses			once property	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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