Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 40
I have already hinted to you what gormandizers some of the comrades of King Ulysses were.
Who acts: I · What happens: hint · To what, where: you
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 (I), 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 | 4 hinted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hinted | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 hinted | advmod |
| 4 | hinted | hint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hinted | obl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 hinted | obj |
| 8 | gormandizers | gormandizer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 gormandizers | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 comrades | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 comrades | det |
| 12 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ulysses | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ulysses | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 comrades | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hinted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hint speech: other | present · perfect | I | you | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to you=Recipient |
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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