Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 78
"You have been long expected, my good friends," said she. "
Who acts: woman · What happens: expect, say · To what, where: You · 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 (woman), 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 expected | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 expected | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 expected | aux:pass |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 expected | advmod |
| 6 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 friends | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friends | amod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 expected | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 expected | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 expected | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | my good friends obl; long property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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