Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 14
On entering the hall, Ulysses saw the magic fountain in the center of it.
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: enter, see · To what, where: hall, magic fountain, center
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 (Ulysses), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 entering | punct |
| 6 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fountain | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fountain | amod |
| 10 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 center | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 center | det |
| 13 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fountain | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 center | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Ulysses not said here | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Ulysses | the magic fountain | the center of center | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fountain=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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