Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 101
Then, recollecting themselves, they scrambled to their feet, and looked more than commonly foolish.
Who acts: people · What happens: recollect, scramble, look · To what, where: people, feet
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 recollecting | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollecting | punct |
| 3 | recollecting | recollect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 scrambled | advcl |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 recollecting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollecting | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scrambled | nsubj |
| 7 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scrambled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scrambled | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 looked | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 foolish | case |
| 16 | commonly | commonly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foolish | amod |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 more | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recollect | gerund | people not said here | people | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | scramble | past | people | people's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | past | people not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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