Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 77
At the portal of every palace, too, she made so loud a summons that the menials hurried to throw open the gate, thinking that it must be some great king or queen, who would demand a banquet for supper and a stately chamber to repose in.
Who acts: child, menials, gate, queen · What happens: make, hurry, throw, open, think, be · To what, where: summons, portal, gate, great king, banquet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, menials, gate, queen), 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 portal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 portal | det |
| 3 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 portal | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 portal | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 loud | advmod |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 summons | det |
| 15 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hurried | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 menials | det |
| 18 | menials | menial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hurried | nsubj |
| 19 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 summons | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 throw | mark |
| 21 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurried | xcomp |
| 22 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 throw | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gate | det |
| 24 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 open | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thinking | punct |
| 26 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 throw | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 king | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 king | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 king | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 king | cop |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 king | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 king | amod |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thinking | ccomp |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 queen | cc |
| 35 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 king | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 demand | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 demand | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 demand | aux |
| 39 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 queen | acl:relcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 banquet | det |
| 41 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 demand | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 supper | case |
| 43 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 banquet | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 chamber | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 chamber | det |
| 46 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 chamber | amod |
| 47 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 banquet | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 repose | mark |
| 49 | repose | repose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 demand | advcl |
| 50 | in | in | ADV | _ | 49 repose | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | child | a summons | the portal of every palace | loud property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Product | ||
| 2 | hurry | past | the menials | a summons | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | to-infinitive | the menials not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | the menials not said here | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | the menials not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | must | gate | some great king or queen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | demand speech: request | would | queen | a banquet and a stately chamber | for supper | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme banquet=Precondition | |||
| 8 | repose | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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