Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 16
"Here is an odd kind of spice in this dish," said one. "
Who acts: odd kind · What happens: be, say · To what, where: one · 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 (odd kind), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 5 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kind | amod |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spice | case |
| 8 | spice | spice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dish | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 dish | det |
| 11 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a odd kind of spice in this dish | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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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