Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 21

And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.

Who acts: prince, own dinner, Ulysses · What happens: be, not bid, welcome · To what, where: stingy curmudgeon, nobleman

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, own dinner, Ulysses), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 curmudgeon	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 curmudgeon	nsubj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 nobleman	cc
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prince	conj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 curmudgeon	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 curmudgeon	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 curmudgeon	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 stingy	advmod
10	stingy	stingy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curmudgeon	amod
11	curmudgeon	curmudgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	15 sure	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curmudgeon	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 if	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 over	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 if	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 least	case
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 if	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 over	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dinner	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dinner	amod
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 over	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 over	cop
27	over	over	ADV	_	32 bid	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bid	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bid	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 bid	advmod
32	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sure	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bid	obj
34	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bid	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 victuals	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 victuals	det
37	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 victuals	amod
38	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 welcome	obl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 table	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 table	det
41	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 victuals	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 curmudgeon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	must	the prince or nobleman	a stingy curmudgeon		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive			sure property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Ulysses's own dinner		over property	tree rules
4	not bid	would	Ulysses	nobleman		tree rules
5	welcome	infinitive	Ulysses not said here		to the broken victuals from the table	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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