Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 98
Have they undergone a similar change, through the arts of this wicked Circe?"
Who acts: companions · What happens: undergo · To what, where: similar change, arts
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 (companions), 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 undergone | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 undergone | nsubj |
| 3 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 change | det |
| 5 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 change | amod |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 undergone | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arts | punct |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 arts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arts | det |
| 10 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 undergone | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Circe | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Circe | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Circe | amod |
| 14 | Circe | circe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arts | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 undergone | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 undergone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undergo | present · perfect | companions = companion | a similar change | the arts of this wicked Circe | 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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