Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 95

He was once a king, named Picus, and a pretty good sort of a king, too, only rather too proud of his purple robe, and his crown, and the golden chain about his neck; so he was forced to take the shape of a gaudy-feathered bird.

Who acts: Quicksilver · What happens: be, name, force, take, sort, crown · To what, where: king, Quicksilver, shape

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 (Quicksilver), 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	5 king	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 king	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 king	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 king	acl
8	Picus	Picus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sort	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sort	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sort	det
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sort	amod
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 too	punct
19	too	too	ADV	_	5 king	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proud	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 proud	advmod
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 proud	advmod
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 proud	advmod
24	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 robe	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 robe	nmod:poss
27	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 robe	amod
28	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 proud	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crown	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crown	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 crown	nmod:poss
32	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 proud	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 chain	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 chain	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chain	det
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 chain	amod
37	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crown	appos
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 neck	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neck	nmod:poss
40	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chain	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 forced	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	45 forced	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 forced	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 forced	aux:pass
45	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 proud	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 take	mark
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 forced	xcomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 shape	det
49	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	55 bird	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 bird	det
52	gaudy	gaudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 feathered	amod
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 gaudy	punct
54	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 bird	amod
55	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 shape	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Quicksilver	a king and a good sort of a king	once property	tree rules
2	name	participle		a king and a good sort of a king not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	force	past · passive		Quicksilver		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take	to-infinitive	Quicksilver not said here	the shape of a feathered bird		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
5	sort			a king		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	crown		Quicksilver			nom crown «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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