Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 56
Then, drinking off all the wine, he looked the enchantress calmly in the face.
Who acts: King · What happens: drink off, look · To what, where: wine, enchantress, face
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 looked | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 drinking | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 wine | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wine | det |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drinking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drinking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enchantress | det |
| 12 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obj |
| 13 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink off | gerund | King not said here | all wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | King | the enchantress | the face | then | calmly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme enchantress=Attribute |
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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