Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 50
But, delightfully as the wine looked, it was mingled with the most potent enchantments that Circe knew how to concoct.
Who acts: wine, Circe · What happens: look, mingle, know, concoct · To what, where: butler, potent enchantments
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 (wine, 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 | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 3 | delightfully | delightfully | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wine | det |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mingled | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mingled | aux:pass |
| 11 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looked | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 enchantments | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 enchantments | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 potent | advmod |
| 15 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 enchantments | amod |
| 16 | enchantments | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mingled | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enchantments | acl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 concoct | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 concoct | mark |
| 22 | concoct | concoct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knew | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the wine | delightfully property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mingle | past · passive | butler | with the potent enchantments | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with enchantment=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Circe | the potent enchantments not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | concoct | to-infinitive | Circe not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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