Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 62
He gave the magic goblet a toss, and sent it clashing over the marble floor to the farthest end of the saloon.
Who acts: virtue · What happens: give, send, clash · To what, where: magic goblet, toss
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblet | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goblet | amod |
| 5 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 toss | det |
| 7 | toss | toss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | clashing | clash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 15 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floor | compound |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clashing | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 19 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clashing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 saloon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 saloon | det |
| 23 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | virtue | the magic goblet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Recipient toss=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | virtue not said here | toss | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clash | gerund | virtue not said here | to the farthest end of the saloon | over the marble floor | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over floor=Theme |
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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