Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 13
The wild beasts yelped and glared at him, and stood at a distance, while he ascended the palace steps.
Who acts: wild beasts, King · What happens: yelp, glare, stand, ascend · To what, where: palace steps
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 (wild beasts, King), 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 | 3 beasts | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 yelped | nsubj |
| 4 | yelped | yelp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 glared | cc |
| 6 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yelped | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 glared | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yelped | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ascended | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 ascended | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ascended | nsubj |
| 18 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 steps | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steps | compound |
| 21 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ascended | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yelp | past | the wild beasts | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | glare | past | the wild beasts not said here | at King | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the wild beasts not said here | at a distance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | ||||
| 4 | ascend | past | King | the palace steps | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |
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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