Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 54
"Tush! we shall fare better here," said another. "
Who acts: we · What happens: fare, say · To what, where: another · 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 fare | punct |
| 2 | Tush | tush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fare | vocative |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tush | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fare | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fare | aux |
| 6 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 fare | advmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fare | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fare | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fare | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fare | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fare | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare in a quote | shall | we | here | Tush vocative; well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | we not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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