Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 85

"My pretty bird," said Eurylochus--for he was a wary person, and let no token of harm escape his notice--"my pretty bird, who sent you hither?

Who acts: pretty bird, bird, token · What happens: say, be, let, escape, send, notice · To what, where: pretty bird, notice, you · 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 (pretty bird, bird, token), 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	_	4 bird	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bird	nmod:poss
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 person	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 person	case
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 person	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 person	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
14	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 person	amod
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 token	det
20	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 escape	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 harm	case
22	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 token	nmod
23	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	ccomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 notice	nmod:poss
25	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 escape	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 bird	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 bird	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bird	nmod:poss
29	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sent	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bird	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sent	iobj
35	hither	hither	ADV	_	33 sent	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	My pretty bird				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	bird			for a wary person	tree rules
3	let	infinitive		my pretty bird			tree rules
4	escape	present	no token of harm	bird's notice			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial_Location
5	send in a quote	past	my pretty bird		you	hither property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	notice		bird				nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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