Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 61

But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape, or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and king-like than before.

Who acts: such virtue · What happens: be, wallow down, take, look · To what, where: such virtue, throne, other brutal form

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 (such virtue), 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	_	33 looked	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 virtue	punct
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 virtue	amod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 virtue	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 virtue	det
6	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flower	amod
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 virtue	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wallowing	punct
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 wallowing	mark
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	wallowing	wallow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 virtue	appos
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 wallowing	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 throne	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 throne	nmod:poss
20	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wallowing	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	swinish	swinish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shape	amod
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throne	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taking	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 wallowing	conj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 form	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 form	amod
29	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 form	amod
30	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 virtue	punct
32	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 manly	advmod
36	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 looked	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 like	cc
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 like	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 king	punct
40	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 manly	conj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 before	case
42	before	before	ADV	_	40 like	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the such virtue		of the white flower	tree rules
2	wallow down	gerund			virtue's throne in swinish shape	down property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	gerund		any other brutal form			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
4	look	past	the such virtue			manly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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