Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 4
I'll engage it will be fit to set before two and twenty kings."
Who acts: I, it · What happens: engage, be, set
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, it), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 engage | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 engage | aux |
| 3 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fit | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fit | cop |
| 7 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 engage | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fit | xcomp |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 kings | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kings | nummod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twenty | cc |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 two | conj |
| 14 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engage | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 engage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | future | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | future | it | fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | before two kings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before king=Destination |
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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