Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 4
I ask your pardon, good folks; but there never such a sight seen hereabouts."
Who acts: I, sight, your · What happens: ask, not see, pardon · To what, where: pardon, hereabouts
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (I, sight, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 folks | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 folks | amod |
| 7 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pardon | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 seen | advmod |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 seen | advmod |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 sight | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ask | parataxis |
| 16 | hereabouts | hereabout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | your pardon and good folks | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not see | participle | such sight | hereabouts | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hereabout=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pardon | your | nom pardon «act 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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