Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 95

It was a wonder to behold how their snouts grew shorter and shorter, and their mouths (which they seemed to be sorry for, because they could not gobble so expeditiously) smaller and smaller, and how one and another began to stand upon his hind legs, and scratch his nose with his fore trotters.

Who acts: hog, snouts, one · What happens: be, behold, grow, seem, not gobble, begin · To what, where: wonder, mouths, hind legs, nose

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 (hog, snouts, one), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wonder	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonder	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wonder	det
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 behold	mark
6	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wonder	acl
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 grew	advmod
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 snouts	nmod:poss
9	snouts	snout	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 behold	advcl
11	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 grew	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shorter	cc
13	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 shorter	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mouths	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mouths	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouths	nmod:poss
17	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wonder	conj
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 seemed	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mouths	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 sorry	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sorry	cop
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seemed	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	24 sorry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gobble	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 gobble	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gobble	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 gobble	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 gobble	advmod
31	gobble	gobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seemed	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 expeditiously	advmod
33	expeditiously	expeditiously	ADV	_	35 smaller	advmod
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 expeditiously	punct
35	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 gobble	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 smaller	cc
37	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 smaller	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 began	cc
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 one	advmod
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 began	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 another	cc
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 one	conj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wonder	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 stand	mark
46	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	50 legs	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 legs	nmod:poss
49	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 legs	amod
50	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stand	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 scratch	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 scratch	cc
53	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 stand	conj
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 nose	nmod:poss
55	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 scratch	obj
56	with	with	ADP	_	59 trotters	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 trotters	nmod:poss
58	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 trotters	amod
59	trotters	trotter	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 scratch	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hog	a wonder and snouts's mouths			tree rules
2	behold	to-infinitive					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow	past	wonder's snouts			short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	snouts = snout	snouts's mouths			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute
5	is	to-infinitive	snouts = snout not said here			sorry property	tree rules
6	not gobble	could	snouts = snout				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	begin	past	one				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	stand	to-infinitive	one not said here		hamadryad's hind legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon leg=Location
9	scratch	infinitive	one not said here	hamadryad's nose		with hamadryad's fore trotters	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient with trotter=Instrument

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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