Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 87
Fish, fowl, and flesh, roasted, and in luscious stews, and seasoned, I trust, to all your tastes, are ready to be served up.
Who acts: I, your · What happens: roast, trust, be, serve up, taste · To what, where: Fish, luscious stews
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, your), 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 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fowl | punct |
| 3 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fish | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flesh | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flesh | cc |
| 6 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fish | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roasted | punct |
| 8 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trust | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trust | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stews | case |
| 12 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stews | amod |
| 13 | stews | stew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 trust | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seasoned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seasoned | cc |
| 16 | seasoned | seasoned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stews | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stews | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 trust | nsubj |
| 19 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 roasted | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tastes | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tastes | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 tastes | det:predet |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tastes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 trust | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ready | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trust | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 served | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 served | aux:pass |
| 30 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 served | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | participle · passive | Fish and fowl and flesh | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | trust | present | I | luscious stews | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | serve up | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» | |||||
| 5 | taste | your | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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