Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 27
She pointed to the web of beautifully-woven cloth in the loom.
Who acts: propriety · What happens: point, weave · To what, where: web, loom
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 (propriety), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 web | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 web | det |
| 5 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pointed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cloth | case |
| 7 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 9 woven | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautifully | punct |
| 9 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cloth | amod |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 web | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 loom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loom | det |
| 13 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pointed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | propriety | the web of woven cloth | the loom | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to web=Recipient | |||
| 2 | weave | participle | beautifully property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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