Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 66
The tone and countenance of Ulysses were so awful, and his sword gleamed so brightly, and seemed to have so intolerably keen an edge, that Circe was almost killed by the mere fright, without waiting for a blow.
Who acts: tone, sword, mere fright · What happens: be, gleam, seem, have, keen, kill · To what, where: edge, Circe
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 (tone, sword, mere fright), 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 | 2 tone | det |
| 2 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awful | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 countenance | cc |
| 4 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tone | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ulysses | case |
| 6 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 countenance | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 awful | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 awful | advmod |
| 9 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gleamed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gleamed | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gleamed | nsubj |
| 14 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 awful | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 brightly | advmod |
| 16 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 14 gleamed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gleamed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 keen | advmod |
| 23 | intolerably | intolerably | ADV | _ | 24 keen | advmod |
| 24 | keen | keen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 edge | det |
| 26 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keen | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 killed | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 killed | mark |
| 29 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 killed | aux:pass |
| 31 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 32 killed | advmod |
| 32 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 keen | conj |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 fright | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fright | det |
| 35 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fright | compound |
| 36 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 killed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 waiting | punct |
| 38 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 39 waiting | mark |
| 39 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 killed | advcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 blow | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 blow | det |
| 42 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 waiting | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 awful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tone and countenance of Ulysses | awful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gleam | past | Ulysses's sword | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Ulysses's sword not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | Ulysses's sword not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keen | infinitive | Ulysses's sword not said here | a edge | intolerably property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Topic | |||
| 6 | kill | past · passive | the mere fright | Circe | almost property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 7 | wait | gerund | the mere fright not said here | for a blow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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