Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 12

"There has been a great deal of pains foolishly wasted on these flowers," observed one of the company; and I tell you what he said, that you may keep in mind what gormandizers they were. "

Who acts: flowers, I, bird, you, gormandizers · What happens: waste, observe, tell, say, keep, gormandizer · To what, where: great deal, flowers, one, you, mind · 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 (flowers, I, bird, you), 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 been	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 been	expl
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wasted	aux:pass
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wasted	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 pains	case
9	pains	pain	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wasted	aux:pass
10	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	_	11 wasted	advmod
11	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 flowers	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 flowers	det
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wasted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 observed	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 observed	punct
17	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flowers	acl:relcl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 observed	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 company	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 company	det
21	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wasted	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 said	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 keep	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 keep	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 keep	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 keep	aux
34	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 mind	case
36	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 keep	obl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 were	obj
38	gormandizers	gormandizer	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 were	nsubj
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gormandizers	nsubj
40	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 keep	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	waste in a quote	participle · passive		a great deal		this flowers	foolishly property	tree rules
2	observe	past	this flowers not said here	one of the company				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	keep	may	you			mind		tree rules
6	gormandizer		gormandizers = gormandizer					tree rules
7	be	past	gormandizers					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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