Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 28
"That last bit of fat is too much for me," said one.
Who acts: last bit · 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 (last bit), 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 | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bit | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bit | amod |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 much | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fat | case |
| 6 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bit | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 much | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 much | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that last bit of fat | for me; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 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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