Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 57
To tell you the truth, if we go to yonder palace, there can be no question that we shall make our appearance at the dinner table; but whether seated as guests, or served up as food, is a point to be seriously considered."
Who acts: we, question · What happens: tell, go, be, make, seat, serve up · To what, where: truth, you, palace, appearance, dinner table, point · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, question), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 tell | mark |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 12 palace | advmod |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 question | det |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 be | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 make | nsubj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 question | acl:relcl |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 24 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 27 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 table | compound |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 served | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 served | cc |
| 31 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 seated | mark |
| 32 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 served | advcl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 guests | case |
| 34 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 seated | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 served | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 served | cc |
| 37 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tell | parataxis |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 served | compound:prt |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 food | case |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 served | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 point | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 point | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 point | det |
| 44 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 considered | mark |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 considered | aux:pass |
| 47 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 48 considered | advmod |
| 48 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 point | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | we | palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | can | can | no question | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | shall | no question | our appearance | the dinner table | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | |||
| 5 | seat | participle | as guests | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||||
| 6 | serve up | participle | as food | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as food=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | a point | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | consider | to-infinitive · passive | seriously property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» |
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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