Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 21
Though I must needs say, the wine has a queer taste too.
Who acts: I, wine · What happens: need, say, have · To what, where: queer taste · 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 (I, wine), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 needs | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 needs | aux |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 has | advcl |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needs | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wine | det |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 taste | det |
| 11 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taste | amod |
| 12 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 has | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | must | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the wine | a queer taste | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient |
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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