Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 5
"That bird," remarked Eurylochus, "knows more than we do about what awaits us at the palace."
Who acts: we · What happens: remark, know, do, await · To what, where: bird, more, us, palace · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 remarked | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remarked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bird | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarked | punct |
| 6 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 remarked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 remarked | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 knows | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 awaits | mark |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 awaits | nsubj |
| 17 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 knows | advcl |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 awaits | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 awaits | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarked | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle · passive | that bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | await in a quote | present | us | the palace | tree rules |
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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