Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 6

Hardly were the words spoken, and before the bird had time to utter another "pe--weep," King Picus leaped down from the bough of a tree, as majestic a sovereign as any in the world, dressed in a long purple robe and gorgeous yellow stockings, with a splendidly wrought collar about his neck, and a golden crown upon his head.

Who acts: bird, King · What happens: be, speak, have, utter, leap down, dress · To what, where: words, pe, bough, majestic sovereign, long purple robe · 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 (bird, King), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 words	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 words	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 leaped	cc
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 leaped	advcl
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 utter	mark
14	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 pe	det
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pe	punct
17	pe	pe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 utter	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 weep	punct
19	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pe	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 leaped	punct
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 leaped	nsubj
23	Picus	Picus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 King	flat
24	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 leaped	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 bough	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bough	det
28	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaped	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tree	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bough	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sovereign	punct
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 sovereign	case
34	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sovereign	amod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sovereign	det
36	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaped	parataxis
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 any	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 sovereign	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 any	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dressed	punct
43	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 sovereign	acl
44	in	in	ADP	_	48 robe	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 robe	det
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 robe	amod
47	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 robe	amod
48	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dressed	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stockings	cc
50	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 stockings	amod
51	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 stockings	amod
52	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 robe	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 collar	punct
54	with	with	ADP	_	58 collar	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 collar	det
56	splendidly	splendidly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 collar	amod
57	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 collar	amod
58	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dressed	obl
59	about	about	ADP	_	61 neck	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 neck	nmod:poss
61	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 collar	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 crown	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 crown	cc
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 crown	det
65	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 crown	amod
66	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sovereign	conj
67	upon	upon	ADP	_	69 head	case
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 head	nmod:poss
69	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 crown	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the words			hardly property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	participle · passive		the words				tree rules
3	have	past	the bird			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	another pe and weep				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pe=Topic
5	leap down	past	King		the bough of a tree		down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bough=Trajectory
6	dress	participle		a majestic sovereign as any and a golden crown upon king's head not said here	a long purple robe and gorgeous yellow stockings		with a splendidly wrought collar about king's neck	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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