Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 20
"It has a twang of the wine cask in it," said one, smacking his lips.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: have, say, smack, twang · To what, where: twang, one, lips, wine cask · 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 (gardener), 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 | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 twang | det |
| 5 | twang | twang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cask | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cask | det |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cask | compound |
| 9 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twang | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cask | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smacking | punct |
| 17 | smacking | smack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lips | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smacking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | gardener | a twang of the wine cask in cask | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 3 | smack | gerund | garden's lips | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | |||||
| 4 | twang in a quote | the wine cask in cask | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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