Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 60
No warning or persuasion, however, had any effect on his companions.
Who acts: warning · What happens: have · To what, where: effect, companions
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 (warning), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 warning | det |
| 2 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 persuasion | cc |
| 4 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warning | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 warning | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 effect | det |
| 10 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 companions | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 effect | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | no warning or persuasion | any effect | Eurylochus's companions | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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