Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 5
"I hope," said another, "it will be, mainly, good substantial joints, sirloins, spareribs, and hinder quarters, without too many kickshaws.
Who acts: I, feast · What happens: hope, say, be · To what, where: hinder quarters, another, good substantial joints · 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 (I, feast), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joints | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 joints | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 joints | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 joints | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 joints | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joints | punct |
| 14 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 18 joints | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mainly | punct |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 joints | amod |
| 17 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 joints | amod |
| 18 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sirloins | punct |
| 20 | sirloins | sirloin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 joints | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spareribs | punct |
| 22 | spareribs | sparerib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 joints | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 quarters | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 quarters | cc |
| 25 | hinder | hind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 quarters | amod |
| 26 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hope | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kickshaws | punct |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 kickshaws | case |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 many | advmod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kickshaws | amod |
| 31 | kickshaws | kickshaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 quarters | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | I | hinder quarters and many kickshaws | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | feast | good substantial joints and sirloins and spareribs | mainly property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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