Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 49

The chief butler liked nothing better than to see people turned into swine, or making any kind of a beast of themselves; so he made haste to bring the royal goblet, filled with a liquid as bright as gold, and which kept sparkling upward, and throwing a sunny spray over the brim.

Who acts: chief butler, people, Ulysses · What happens: like, see, turn, make, haste, bring · To what, where: nothing, swine, kind, royal goblet, sunny spray, brim · 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 (chief butler, people, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butler	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 butler	amod
3	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 liked	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nothing	amod
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	advcl
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 swine	case
13	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 making	cc
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 turned	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 kind	det
18	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 beast	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beast	det
21	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kind	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 themselves	case
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 beast	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 haste	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 haste	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 haste	nsubj
27	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 haste	aux
28	haste	haste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 bring	mark
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 haste	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 goblet	det
32	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 goblet	amod
33	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bring	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 filled	punct
35	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 goblet	acl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 liquid	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 liquid	det
38	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 filled	obl
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 bright	advmod
40	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 liquid	amod
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 gold	case
42	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bright	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kept	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 kept	cc
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 kept	nsubj
46	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
47	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 kept	xcomp
48	upward	upward	ADV	_	47 sparkling	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 throwing	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 throwing	cc
51	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 sparkling	conj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 spray	det
53	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 spray	amod
54	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 throwing	obj
55	over	over	ADP	_	57 brim	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 brim	det
57	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 throwing	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	past	the chief butler	nothing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the chief butler not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	turn	past	people		swine		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swine=Trajectory
4	make	gerund	people not said here	any kind of a beast of people			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product
5	haste	may	Ulysses				tree rules
6	bring	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here	the royal goblet			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme
7	fill	participle		the royal goblet not said here		with a liquid	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with liquid=Instrument
8	keep	past					tree rules
9	sparkle	gerund				upward property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	throw	gerund		a sunny spray	the brim		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spray=Theme over brim=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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