Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 67
The chief butler scrambled out of the saloon, picking up the golden goblet as he went; and the enchantress and the four maidens fell on their knees, wringing their hands, and screaming for mercy.
Who acts: chief butler, sword, enchantress · What happens: scramble, pick up, go, fall, wring, scream · To what, where: saloon, golden goblet, knees, hands
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 (chief butler, sword, enchantress), 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 | 3 butler | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 butler | amod |
| 3 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrambled | nsubj |
| 4 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 saloon | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 saloon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 saloon | det |
| 8 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scrambled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picking | punct |
| 10 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 scrambled | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picking | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goblet | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 goblet | amod |
| 14 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picking | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 picking | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enchantress | det |
| 21 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 maidens | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maidens | det |
| 24 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 maidens | nummod |
| 25 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 enchantress | conj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scrambled | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 knees | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 knees | nmod:poss |
| 29 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wringing | punct |
| 31 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fell | advcl |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hands | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 wringing | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 screaming | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 screaming | cc |
| 36 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 wringing | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 mercy | case |
| 38 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 screaming | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | past | the chief butler | the saloon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out saloon=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | the chief butler not said here | the golden goblet | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | past | sword | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the enchantress and the four maidens | maidens's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 5 | wring | gerund | the enchantress and the four maidens not said here | knees's hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 6 | scream speech: express | gerund | the enchantress and the four maidens not said here | for mercy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mercy=Recipient |
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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