Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 79
She therefore led Ulysses out of the back entrance of the palace, and showed him the swine in their sty.
Who acts: bird · What happens: lead, show · To what, where: Ulysses, back entrance, swine, sty
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 (bird), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 entrance | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 entrance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 entrance | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrance | compound |
| 9 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrance | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swine | det |
| 18 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sty | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swine | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | bird | Ulysses | the back entrance of the palace | therefore property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ulysses=Theme out entrance=Destination | ||
| 2 | show | past | bird not said here | the swine | Ulysses | conditions's sty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient swine=Topic |
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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