Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 47

They fall away, and are thought of no more, the instant he puts his imagination in sympathy with the innocent little circle, whose wide-open eyes are fixed so eagerly upon him.

Who acts: characteristics, instant · What happens: fall away, think, put, fix, imagine · To what, where: more, imagination, sympathy, wide open eyes

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (characteristics, instant), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 fall	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	aux:pass
7	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fall	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 no	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 more	det
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 thought	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 puts	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 instant	det
13	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puts	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 puts	nsubj
15	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 imagination	nmod:poss
17	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puts	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 sympathy	case
19	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puts	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 circle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 circle	det
22	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 circle	amod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 circle	amod
24	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puts	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fixed	punct
26	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 eyes	nmod:poss
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wide	punct
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fixed	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fixed	aux:pass
32	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 circle	acl
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 eagerly	advmod
34	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	32 fixed	advmod
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fixed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall away	present	characteristics = characteristic			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	think speech: other	present · passive		no more			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: more=Theme
3	put	present	the instant	instant's imagination	sympathy	with the innocent little circle	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent imagination=Theme in sympathy=Destination
4	fix	present · passive		wide open eyes		upon instant; eagerly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
5	imagine		instant				nom imagination «cognition 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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