Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 19
The moment she beheld his stately figure standing in the doorway, the beautiful woman rose from the loom, and ran to meet him with a glad smile throwing its sunshine over her face, and both her hands extended.
Who acts: moment, stately figure, beautiful woman, glad smile, hands, Ulysses · What happens: behold, stand, rise, run, meet, throw · To what, where: stately figure, doorway, loom, Ulysses, sunshine, face
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 (moment, stately figure, beautiful woman, glad smile), 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 figure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 figure | amod |
| 7 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 figure | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 doorway | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doorway | det |
| 11 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 doorway | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 loom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loom | det |
| 19 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beheld | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 meet | mark |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ran | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 smile | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 smile | det |
| 28 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 smile | amod |
| 29 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meet | obl |
| 30 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 smile | acl |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sunshine | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 throwing | obj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 face | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 face | nmod:poss |
| 35 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 throwing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 extended | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 extended | cc |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 hands | det |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hands | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 extended | nsubj |
| 41 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beheld | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the moment | Ulysses's stately figure | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Ulysses's stately figure not said here | the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the beautiful woman | the doorway not said here | the loom | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient doorway=Extent from loom=Initial_State | |||
| 4 | run | past | the moment not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | Ulysses | with a glad smile | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with smile=Instrument | |||
| 6 | throw | gerund | a glad smile not said here | smile's sunshine | woman's face | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme over face=Destination | |||
| 7 | extend | past | woman's hands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | figure | Ulysses | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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