Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 40
Then, clapping her hands, she summoned the chief butler.
Who acts: hand · What happens: clap, summon · To what, where: hands, chief butler
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 (hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 summoned | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clapping | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clapping | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 summoned | nsubj |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 butler | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 butler | amod |
| 11 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 summoned | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | gerund | hand not said here | hand's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | hand | the chief butler | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butler=Recipient |
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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