Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 22
The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as they were uttered; and first there was a murmur amongst them, and then a loud shout.
Who acts: king · What happens: catch up, utter, be, word · To what, where: people, murmur
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uttered | punct |
| 12 | indistinctly | indistinctly | ADV | _ | 16 uttered | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 uttered | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uttered | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 uttered | aux:pass |
| 16 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caught | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 murmur | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 murmur | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 murmur | det |
| 23 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 24 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 murmur | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shout | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shout | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 shout | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 shout | det |
| 30 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shout | amod |
| 31 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 murmur | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | participle · passive | the people | about, round property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past · passive | people | indistinctly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a murmur and a loud shout | amongst people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | the king | nom word «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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