Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 52

The mere smell of the bubbles, which effervesced at the brim, was enough to turn a man's beard into pig's bristles, or make a lion's claws grow out of his fingers, or a fox's brush behind him.

Who acts: bubbles, mere smell, claws · What happens: effervesce, be, turn, make, grow out, smell · To what, where: brim, beard, bristles, fingers

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 (bubbles, mere smell, claws), 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 smell	det
2	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smell	amod
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enough	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bubbles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bubbles	det
6	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 effervesced	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 effervesced	nsubj
9	effervesced	effervesce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bubbles	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 brim	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brim	det
12	brim	brim	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 effervesced	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 enough	cop
15	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 turn	mark
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 enough	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beard	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 man	case
21	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 bristles	case
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bristles	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 pig	case
25	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turn	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 enough	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lion	det
30	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 claws	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 lion	case
32	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grow	nsubj
33	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 make	xcomp
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 fingers	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fingers	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fingers	nmod:poss
37	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grow	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 brush	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 brush	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fox	det
41	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 brush	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 fox	case
43	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grow	obl
44	behind	behind	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 brush	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	effervesce	past	the bubbles		the brim		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at brim=Location
2	is	past	the mere smell of the bubbles			enough property	tree rules
3	turn	to-infinitive	the mere smell of the bubbles not said here	a man's beard	pig's bristles		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beard=Theme into bristle=Trajectory
4	make	infinitive	the mere smell of the bubbles not said here				tree rules
5	grow out	present	a lion's claws	pig's fingers		a fox's brush behind fox obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme
6	smell		the bubbles				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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