Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 45

But Ulysses, while the butler was gone for the wine, held the snow-white flower to his nose.

Who acts: butler, Ulysses · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: Ulysses, white flower

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 (butler, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 held	cc
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 held	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 butler	det
6	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ulysses	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 wine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wine	det
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ulysses	punct
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flower	det
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 white	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 snow	punct
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 nose	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nose	nmod:poss
21	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the butler	Ulysses not said here				for the wine; gone property	tree rules
2	hold	past	Ulysses	the white flower				to Ulysses's nose	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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