Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 2
At this moment, the note of a bird sounded from the branch of a neighboring tree.
What happens: sound, neighbor, note · To what, where: note, branch, bird
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounded | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 note | det |
| 6 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 note | nmod |
| 10 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 branch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounded | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 branch | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | participle · passive | the note of a bird | the branch of a neighboring tree | moment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | note | a bird | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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