Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 8
But from that time forth, King Picus was no longer proud of his crown and his trappings of royalty, nor of the fact of his being a king; he felt himself merely the upper servant of his people, and that it must be his life-long labor to make them better and happier.
Who acts: King, crown · What happens: be, feel, make, crown · To what, where: king, long labor, people
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 (King, crown), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 proud | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proud | obl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 proud | nsubj |
| 8 | Picus | Picus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proud | cop |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 proud | advmod |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 crown | nmod:poss |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proud | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trappings | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crown | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 royalty | case |
| 20 | royalty | royalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trappings | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fact | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 fact | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fact | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fact | det |
| 25 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proud | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 king | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 king | nmod:poss |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 king | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fact | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 felt | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 felt | nsubj |
| 33 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proud | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 felt | obj |
| 35 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 38 servant | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 servant | det |
| 37 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 servant | amod |
| 38 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 felt | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 people | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 people | nmod:poss |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 servant | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 labor | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 labor | cc |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 labor | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 labor | nsubj |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 labor | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 labor | cop |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 labor | nmod:poss |
| 49 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 long | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 life | punct |
| 51 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 labor | amod |
| 52 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 felt | obl |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 make | mark |
| 54 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 labor | acl |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 make | obj |
| 56 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 54 make | xcomp |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 happier | cc |
| 58 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 56 better | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | time | of king's crown and king's trappings of royalty; long, proud property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | of king's king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | king | king | the upper servant of king's people obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | must | crown | king's long labor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | people | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 6 | crown | king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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