Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 38

But this was surely the most magnificent seat that ever a king or an emperor reposed himself upon, all made of chased gold, studded with precious stones, with a cushion that looked like a soft heap of living roses, and overhung by a canopy of sunlight which Circe knew how to weave into drapery.

Who acts: this, king, cushion, Circe · What happens: be, repose, make, chase, stud, look · To what, where: magnificent seat, all, chased gold, canopy, drapery · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, king, cushion, Circe), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 seat	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 seat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seat	cop
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	8 seat	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seat	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 magnificent	advmod
7	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seat	amod
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 reposed	obl:unmarked
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 king	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reposed	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 emperor	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 emperor	det
15	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 king	conj
16	reposed	repose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seat	acl:relcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 reposed	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 reposed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 made	nsubj:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 reposed	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
23	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gold	amod
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 studded	punct
26	studded	stud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 gold	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 stones	case
28	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stones	amod
29	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 studded	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cushion	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 cushion	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cushion	det
33	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cushion	acl:relcl
36	like	like	ADP	_	39 heap	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 heap	det
38	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 heap	amod
39	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 roses	case
41	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 roses	amod
42	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 heap	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 overhung	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 overhung	cc
45	overhung	overhang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 made	conj
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 canopy	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 canopy	det
48	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 overhung	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 sunlight	case
50	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 canopy	nmod
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 knew	obj
52	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 knew	nsubj
53	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 canopy	acl:relcl
54	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	56 weave	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 weave	mark
56	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 knew	ccomp
57	into	into	ADP	_	58 drapery	case
58	drapery	drapery	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 weave	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the magnificent seat		surely property	tree rules
2	repose	past	a king or a emperor	the magnificent seat			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	make	participle · passive		all		of chased gold; with a cushion	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	chase	participle					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	stud	participle		chased gold not said here		with precious stones	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme
6	look	past	a cushion			like a soft heap of living roses	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	overhang	participle				by a canopy of sunlight	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	know	past	Circe	a canopy of sunlight			tree rules
9	weave	to-infinitive			drapery		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into drapery=Destination

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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