Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 22
But the more I drink of it, the better I like the flavor."
Who acts: I · What happens: drink, like · To what, where: flavor
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 drink | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 more | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 drink | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | nsubj |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drink | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 better | det |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flavor | det |
| 14 | flavor | flavor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present | I | of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | the flavor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flavor=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/22/