Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 37

Instead of two and twenty thrones, which had before been ranged around the wall, there was now only a single throne, in the center of the apartment.

Who acts: single throne · What happens: range, be · To what, where: two thrones, wall

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 (single throne), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	6 thrones	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thrones	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 twenty	cc
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 two	conj
6	thrones	throne	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ranged	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ranged	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ranged	aux
10	before	before	ADV	_	12 ranged	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 ranged	aux:pass
12	ranged	range	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thrones	acl:relcl
13	around	around	ADP	_	15 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ranged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thrones	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 throne	advmod
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 throne	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 throne	det
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 throne	amod
23	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 center	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 center	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 center	det
27	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throne	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 apartment	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 apartment	det
30	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 center	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	range	past · perfect · passive		two thrones		the wall		before property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	be	past	a single throne and the center of the apartment			there		instead two thrones	vn exist-47.1 «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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