Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 53

Shall I never hear them again? nor taste those nice little savory dishes which my dearest wife knew how to serve up?"

Who acts: I, those, dearest wife · What happens: not hear, taste, dish, know, serve up · To what, where: forms, nice little savory dishes · 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 (I, those, dearest wife), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 taste	cc
9	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 dishes	nsubj
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dishes	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dishes	amod
13	savory	savory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dishes	compound
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taste	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 knew	obj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
17	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 wife	amod
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dishes	acl:relcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 serve	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 serve	mark
22	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knew	ccomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 serve	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not hear	shall	I	forms = form	again	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	taste	infinitive	I not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	dish		those			tree rules
4	know	past	my dearest wife	nice little savory dishes		tree rules
5	serve up	to-infinitive				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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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