Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 48
"Too sweet, indeed," answered Eurylochus, shaking his head. "
Who acts: Eurylochus · What happens: answer, shake · To what, where: head
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 (Eurylochus), 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 sweet | punct |
| 2 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 3 sweet | advmod |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 indeed | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 sweet | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sweet | conj |
| 9 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaking | punct |
| 11 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Eurylochus | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Eurylochus not said here | Eurylochus's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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