Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 79
"Let us make haste," cried the others, "or we shall be too late for the good cheer!"
Who acts: us, others, we · What happens: let, make, cry, be · To what, where: us, haste · 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 (us, others, we), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 late | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 late | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 late | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 late | cop |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 late | advmod |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 cheer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cheer | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cheer | amod |
| 22 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 late | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 late | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the others | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | we | for the good cheer; late property | 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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