Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 29

"And I have not room for another morsel," said his next neighbor, heaving a sigh. "

Who acts: next neighbor · What happens: not room, say, heave · To what, where: sigh · 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 (next neighbor), 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	_	6 room	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 room	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 room	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 room	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 room	advmod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 morsel	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 morsel	det
9	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 room	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 room	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neighbor	nmod:poss
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 neighbor	amod
15	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heaving	punct
17	heaving	heave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sigh	det
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heaving	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not room in a quote	present	Ulysses's next neighbor = neighbor		for another morsel	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Ulysses's next neighbor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	heave	gerund	Ulysses's next neighbor not said here	a sigh		vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=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.

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