Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 102
"But can I do nothing to help them?" inquired Ulysses.
Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: do, help, inquire · To what, where: nothing, shapes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nothing | acl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | Ulysses | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | Ulysses not said here | shapes = shape | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | Ulysses | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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