Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 96

The lions, and wolves, and tigers, who will come running to meet you, in front of the palace, were formerly fierce and cruel men, resembling in their disposition the wild beasts whose forms they now rightfully wear."

Who acts: tigers, lions, wild beasts · What happens: come, run, meet, be, resemble, wear · To what, where: front, you, disposition

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 (tigers, lions, wild beasts), 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	2 lions	det
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fierce	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wolves	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wolves	cc
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lions	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tigers	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tigers	cc
8	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lions	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tigers	acl:relcl
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 come	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 meet	mark
15	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 running	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 meet	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 front	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 front	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lions	punct
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fierce	cop
25	formerly	formerly	ADV	_	26 fierce	advmod
26	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 men	cc
28	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 men	amod
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fierce	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 resembling	punct
31	resembling	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 wear	csubj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 disposition	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 disposition	nmod:poss
34	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 resembling	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beasts	det
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beasts	amod
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wear	nsubj
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	39 forms	nmod:poss
39	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wear	nsubj
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wear	nsubj
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 wear	advmod
42	rightfully	rightfully	ADV	_	43 wear	advmod
43	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fierce	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 fierce	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 fierce	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	tigers		front of the palace			tree rules
2	run	gerund	tigers not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	meet	to-infinitive	tigers not said here	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
4	is	past	the lions and wolves and tigers				fierce, formerly property	tree rules
5	resemble	gerund			lions's disposition			tree rules
6	wear	infinitive	the wild beasts			now	rightfully property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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