Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 86
For this purpose, my honored guests, I have ordered a banquet to be prepared.
Who acts: I · What happens: honor, order, be · To what, where: banquet
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guests | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guests | nmod:poss |
| 6 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 guests | amod |
| 7 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 purpose | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 purpose | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ordered | aux |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 banquet | det |
| 13 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 prepared | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prepared | cop |
| 16 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ordered | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honor | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | order | present · perfect | I | a banquet | for this purpose my honored guests | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | prepared 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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