Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 55
King Ulysses took the goblet with his right hand, while with his left he held the snow-white flower to his nostrils, and drew in so long a breath that his lungs were quite filled with its pure and simple fragrance.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, hold, draw, fill · To what, where: goblet, white flower, long breath, lungs
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblet | det |
| 5 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hand | amod |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 left | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 left | nmod:poss |
| 14 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flower | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 snow | punct |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flower | amod |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 nostrils | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drew | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drew | cc |
| 27 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 breath | case |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 long | advmod |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 breath | amod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 breath | det |
| 32 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drew | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 filled | obj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 35 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 filled | aux:pass |
| 37 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 38 filled | advmod |
| 38 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 breath | acl:relcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 fragrance | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 fragrance | nmod:poss |
| 41 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 fragrance | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 simple | cc |
| 43 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pure | conj |
| 44 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 filled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | the goblet | with King's right hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | King | the white flower | with King's left; to King's nostrils | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | past | King not said here | a long breath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in breath=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | King's lungs | with goblet's pure fragrance | tree rules |
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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