Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 58
Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, after putting out the conflagration of his hair, gazed all round about, but could see nothing.
What happens: put out, gaze, see · To what, where: conflagration, nothing
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 piping | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piping | det |
| 4 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piping | amod |
| 5 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Surprised | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voices | case |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voices | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voices | amod |
| 10 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piping | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hercules | punct |
| 12 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 voices | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 putting | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 putting | mark |
| 15 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Surprised | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 putting | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 conflagration | det |
| 18 | conflagration | conflagration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 putting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conflagration | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gazed | punct |
| 23 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Surprised | parataxis |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 round | advmod |
| 25 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 gazed | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 gazed | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gazed | conj |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | gerund | the conflagration of conflagration's hair | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent conflagration=Goal | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | about, round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | could | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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