Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 19

"Send a good draught of wine down your throat," said his comrade on the next throne. "

Who acts: you, comrade · What happens: send, say · To what, where: good draught, next throne · 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 (you, comrade), 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 Send	punct
2	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 draught	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 draught	amod
5	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Send	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wine	case
7	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 draught	nmod
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 throat	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 throat	nmod:poss
10	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Send	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Send	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 comrade	nmod:poss
15	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 throne	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 throne	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 throne	amod
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a good draught of wine				down your throat	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	his comrade			the next throne			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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