Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 80
Look at this piece of tapestry, and judge if your faces must not have been familiar to us."
Who acts: you, faces · What happens: look, judge, not be · To what, where: 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, faces), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 piece | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 piece | det |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tapestry | case |
| 6 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 judge | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 judge | cc |
| 9 | judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 familiar | mark |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 faces | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 familiar | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 familiar | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 familiar | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 familiar | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 familiar | cop |
| 17 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 judge | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 familiar | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at this piece of tapestry | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | judge | infinitive | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | must · perfect | your faces | us | familiar property | tree rules |
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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