Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 1
"This troublesome and impertinent little fowl," said he, "would make a delicate titbit to begin dinner with.
Who acts: fowl, troublesome little fowl · What happens: say, make, begin · To what, where: delicate titbit, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowl, troublesome little fowl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1144): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 fowl | det |
| 3 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fowl | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 impertinent | cc |
| 5 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troublesome | conj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fowl | amod |
| 7 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | parataxis |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 titbit | det |
| 17 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 titbit | amod |
| 18 | titbit | titbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 begin | mark |
| 20 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 titbit | acl |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begin | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 begin | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fowl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | would | this troublesome little fowl | a delicate titbit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | to-infinitive | this troublesome little fowl not said here | dinner | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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