Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 47
At this the four maidens tittered; whereupon the enchantress looked round at them, with an aspect of severity.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: titter, look round · To what, where: four maidens
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 maidens | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maidens | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 maidens | nummod |
| 5 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | tittered | titter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 maidens | acl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 8 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 looked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enchantress | det |
| 10 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tittered | parataxis |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 aspect | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 aspect | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 aspect | det |
| 18 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 severity | case |
| 20 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aspect | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 maidens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | titter | participle | the four maidens not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look round | past | the enchantress | at maidens = maiden; with a aspect of severity; round, whereupon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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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