Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 79
I and my maidens are well acquainted with you, although you do not appear to recognize us.
Who acts: you · What happens: acquaint, not appear, recognize · To what, where: I, us
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 (you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 acquainted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 maidens | cc |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 I | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 acquainted | advmod |
| 7 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 acquainted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appear | punct |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 15 appear | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 appear | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 appear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 appear | advmod |
| 15 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 acquainted | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 recognize | mark |
| 17 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 appear | xcomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 recognize | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | present · passive | I | with you; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not appear | present · do-support | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | recognize | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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