Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 81

For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs, and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city.

Who acts: it, air, Theseus, deep quiet sighs, woe · What happens: appear, be, listen, hear, groan, mingle · To what, where: habitation, sobs, screams, streets, palace

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (it, air, Theseus, deep quiet sighs), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	3 appeared	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 full	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 full	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 full	cop
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 appeared	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wail	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wail	det
12	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wail	compound
13	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hear	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 listened	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 listened	nsubj
18	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	advcl
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 attentively	advmod
20	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	18 listened	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listened	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 appeared	conj
25	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hear	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 groans	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 groans	cc
28	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screams	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 screams	cc
31	screams	scream	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 groans	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 woe	case
33	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 screams	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mingled	punct
35	mingled	mingle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 screams	acl
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 sighs	case
37	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sighs	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deep	punct
39	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sighs	amod
40	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mingled	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 came	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 came	nsubj
43	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sighs	acl:relcl
44	from	from	ADP	_	48 palace	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 king	det
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 palace	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 king	case
48	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 came	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 streets	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 streets	cc
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 streets	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 streets	det
53	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 groans	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 temples	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 temples	cc
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 temples	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 temples	det
58	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 groans	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 habitation	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 habitation	cc
61	from	from	ADP	_	63 habitation	case
62	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	63 habitation	det
63	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	obl
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 city	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 city	det
66	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 habitation	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	it		every habitation in the city		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the air			of a melancholy wail; full property	tree rules
3	listen	past	Theseus			attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	hear	could	Theseus	sobs			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sob=Stimulus
5	groan	present		screams of woe	the streets		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scream=Theme
6	mingle	participle		screams of woe not said here		with deep quiet sighs	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sigh=Co-Patient
7	come	past	deep quiet sighs		the king's palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location
8	scream		woe				nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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