Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 24
At the first ringing note of the music, they felt the vessel stir.
Who acts: oars · What happens: feel, note · To what, where: vessel stir, first ringing note, music
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oars), 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 | _ | 5 note | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 note | amod |
| 4 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 note | compound |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 music | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 music | det |
| 8 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 note | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 note | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stir | det |
| 13 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | compound |
| 14 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | oars = oar | the vessel stir | the first ringing note of the music | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stir=Theme at note=Location | |||
| 2 | note | the music | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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