Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 4

It was the purple bird, who, all this while, had been sitting over their heads, watching what was going forward, and hoping that Ulysses would remember how he had done his utmost to keep him and his followers out of harm's way.

Who acts: note, purple bird, Ulysses · What happens: be, sit, watch, go, hope, remember · To what, where: purple bird, heads, Ulysses, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (note, purple bird, Ulysses), 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	5 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 who	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 while	det:predet
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 who	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 who	punct
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bird	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 heads	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sitting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 watching	punct
20	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	advcl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 going	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 watching	ccomp
24	forward	forward	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hoping	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hoping	cc
27	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sitting	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 remember	mark
29	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 remember	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 remember	aux
31	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hoping	advcl
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 done	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 remember	ccomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 utmost	nmod:poss
37	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 done	xcomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 keep	mark
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 done	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 keep	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 followers	cc
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 followers	nmod:poss
43	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 him	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	48 way	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 way	case
46	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 way	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 harm	case
48	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keep	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	note	the purple bird			tree rules
2	sit	past · perfect · progressive	the purple bird		pe's heads		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location
3	watch	gerund	the purple bird not said here				tree rules
4	go	past · progressive				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hope	gerund	the purple bird not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	remember	would	Ulysses				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	do	past · perfect	Ulysses			utmost property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	keep	to-infinitive	Ulysses not said here	Ulysses	harm's way		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out way=Location

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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