Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 32
The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the gormandizers.
Who acts: enchantress, Ulysses · What happens: be, let, see, bring · To what, where: Ulysses, mischief, magic arts
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 (enchantress, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 enchantress | det |
| 2 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cunning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cunning | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 cunning | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 cunning | advmod |
| 6 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cunning | csubj |
| 9 | Ulysses | ulysses | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mischief | det |
| 12 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 brought | obj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arts | amod |
| 16 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 18 | since | since | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mischief | acl:relcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 gormandizers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gormandizers | det |
| 22 | gormandizers | gormandizer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cunning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the enchantress | cunning, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | Ulysses | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Ulysses not said here | the mischief | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | work's magic arts | upon the gormandizers; since property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination which=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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