Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 59

"That is a matter of taste," said King Ulysses, "and, for my own part, neither the most careful fattening nor the daintiest of cookery would reconcile me to being dished at last.

Who acts: That, Ulysses, own part · What happens: be, say, reconcile, dish · To what, where: matter, Ulysses, last · 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 (That, Ulysses, own part), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 taste	case
7	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ulysses	nmod:desc
12	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 part	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 part	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 part	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 part	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 part	amod
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reconcile	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fattening	punct
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 fattening	cc:preconj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fattening	det
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 careful	advmod
25	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fattening	amod
26	fattening	fattening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 part	conj
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 daintiest	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 daintiest	det
29	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 part	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cookery	case
31	cookery	cookery	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daintiest	obl
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 reconcile	aux
33	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 reconcile	obj
35	to	to	SCONJ	_	37 dished	mark
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 dished	aux:pass
37	dished	dish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 reconcile	advcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dished	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a matter		of taste	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Ulysses King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reconcile in a quote	would	my own part neither the careful fattening	Ulysses King = ulysses			tree rules
4	dish in a quote	gerund · passive	my own part neither the careful fattening not said here		last		tree rules

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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