Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 57

"Why do you come alone?" asked King Ulysses, as soon as he saw him. "

Who acts: you, Ulysses · What happens: come, ask, see · To what, where: uproar · 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 (you, Ulysses), 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	_	5 come	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ulysses	nmod:desc
11	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 saw	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 saw	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · do-support	you		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Ulysses King			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	Ulysses	uproar	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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