Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 94
So Circe waved her wand again, and repeated a few magic words, at the sound of which the two and twenty hogs pricked up their pendulous ears.
Who acts: Circe · What happens: wave, repeat, prick up · To what, where: wand, few magic words, sound, two hogs
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 (Circe), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waved | advmod |
| 2 | Circe | Circe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 waved | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 repeated | cc |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waved | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repeated | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sound | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sound | det |
| 17 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pricked | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hogs | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hogs | nummod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 twenty | cc |
| 23 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 two | conj |
| 24 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pricked | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sound | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 pricked | compound:prt |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ears | nmod:poss |
| 28 | pendulous | pendulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ears | amod |
| 29 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pricked | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | Circe | Circe's wand | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | |||
| 2 | repeat | past | Circe not said here | a few magic words | the sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | prick up | participle · passive | the two hogs | of the sound | tree rules |
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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