Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 16
The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song, and then the pleasant voices of herself and the four maidens talking together, with peals of merry laughter intermixed.
Who acts: king, four maidens, shuttle, beautiful woman, merry laughter · What happens: hear, talk, intermix, noise, sing, peal · To what, where: noise, loom, merry laughter
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 (king, four maidens, shuttle, beautiful woman), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shuttle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shuttle | det |
| 9 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noise | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 loom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 loom | det |
| 12 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 melody | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 melody | det |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 melody | amod |
| 16 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loom | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 song | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 song | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 melody | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 voices | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 voices | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 voices | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 voices | det |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voices | amod |
| 28 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 herself | case |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 voices | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 maidens | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 maidens | det |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 maidens | nummod |
| 34 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 voices | conj |
| 35 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 maidens | acl |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 35 talking | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 peals | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 peals | case |
| 39 | peals | peal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 talking | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 laughter | case |
| 41 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 laughter | amod |
| 42 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 peals | nmod |
| 43 | intermixed | intermix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 laughter | acl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | the noise of the shuttle | the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song | the pleasant voices of woman and the four maidens obl; likewise property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the four maidens not said here | with peals of merry laughter; together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with peal=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | intermix | participle | merry laughter not said here | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | noise | the shuttle | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing | the beautiful woman | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | peal | merry laughter | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=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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