Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 58
What harm can the lady of the palace and her maidens do to mariners and warriors like us?"
Who acts: harm, lady · What happens: lady, do
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 (harm, lady), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 lady | det |
| 2 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 maidens | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 palace | conj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mariners | case |
| 14 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warriors | cc |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mariners | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 warriors | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lady | can | harm | of the palace and lady's maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | what lady | to mariners and warriors like us | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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