Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 17
But Ulysses did not waste much time in listening to the laughter or the song.
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: not waste, listen
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 waste | cc |
| 2 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waste | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waste | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 waste | advmod |
| 5 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waste | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 listening | mark |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 waste | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 laughter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laughter | det |
| 12 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listening | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 song | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 song | det |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughter | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste | past · do-support | Ulysses | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | Ulysses not said here | to the laughter or the song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to laughter=Theme |
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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