Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 37
"Wretches," cried she, "you have abused a lady's hospitality; and in this princely saloon your behavior has been suited to a hog-pen.
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: cry, abuse, suit · To what, where: hospitality, behavior, princely saloon · 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 (woman, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1254): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretches | punct |
| 2 | Wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 abused | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretches | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wretches | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 abused | parataxis |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 abused | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 abused | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 abused | aux |
| 11 | abused | abuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 15 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abused | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 suited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 suited | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 saloon | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 saloon | det |
| 20 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saloon | amod |
| 21 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suited | obl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 23 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suited | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 suited | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 suited | aux:pass |
| 26 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 abused | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 pen | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pen | det |
| 29 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pen | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hog | punct |
| 31 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suited | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 abused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | abuse in a quote | present · perfect | you | a lady's hospitality | Wretches vocative | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suit in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your behavior | this princely saloon | to a hog pen | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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