Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 28

Circe and the four nymphs must have been very diligently at work since the arrival of the mariners; for a great many yards of tapestry had now been wrought, in addition to what I before described.

Who acts: Circe, I, mariners · What happens: be, work, describe, arrive · To what, where: work, great many yards, addition

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 (Circe, I, mariners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1331): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 work	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nymphs	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nymphs	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nymphs	nummod
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Circe	conj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 work	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 diligently	advmod
10	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	12 work	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 work	case
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	since	since	ADP	_	15 arrival	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrival	det
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mariners	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mariners	det
18	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 arrival	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wrought	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 wrought	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yards	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 yards	amod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 yards	amod
24	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wrought	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 tapestry	case
26	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yards	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wrought	aux
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 wrought	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 wrought	aux:pass
30	wrought	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 work	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 addition	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 addition	case
33	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wrought	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 addition	nmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 described	nsubj
37	before	before	ADV	_	38 described	advmod
38	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · perfect	Circe and the four nymphs		work	since the arrival of the mariners	diligently property	tree rules
2	work	past · perfect · passive		a great many yards of tapestry	addition	now		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
3	describe	past	I				before property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	arrive		the mariners					nom arrival «act 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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