Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 66
Then, taking off his helmet, he put two shells into it, on one of which was written, "Go," and on the other "Stay."
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: take off, put, write, go, stay · To what, where: helmet, two shells, other · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 put | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 taking | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 shells | nummod |
| 11 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 written | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 one | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Go | punct |
| 23 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Go | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Stay | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 other | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Stay | obl |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Stay | punct |
| 31 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | gerund | Ulysses not said here | Ulysses's helmet | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Ulysses | two shells | helmet | then | on one | tree rules | |
| 3 | write | past · passive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | infinitive | Ulysses not said here | the other | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location |
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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