Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 103

"It will require all your wisdom," said Quicksilver, "and a little of my own into the bargain, to keep your royal and sagacious self from being transformed into a fox.

Who acts: beast, Quicksilver · What happens: require, say, keep, transform · To what, where: wisdom, royal self · 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 (beast, Quicksilver), 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	_	4 require	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 require	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 require	aux
4	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 wisdom	det:predet
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wisdom	nmod:poss
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 require	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 require	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 require	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 own	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 own	obl:unmarked
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 own	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 bargain	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bargain	det
22	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 own	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 self	nmod:poss
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 self	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sagacious	cc
29	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 royal	conj
30	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obj
31	from	from	SCONJ	_	33 transformed	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 transformed	aux:pass
33	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 keep	advcl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 fox	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fox	det
36	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 transformed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require in a quote	future	beast	your wisdom		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wisdom=Precondition
2	say speech: assert	past	Quicksilver			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	Quicksilver not said here	your royal self		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Theme
4	transform in a quote	gerund · passive	Quicksilver not said here		into a fox result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into fox=Result

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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