Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 86

And what is the message which you bring?"

Who acts: message · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: message

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 (message), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 message	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 message	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 message	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 bring	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bring	nsubj
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 message	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the message					tree rules
2	bring	infinitive	the message						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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