Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 66
"You are our king," cried they; "and what is more, you are the wisest man in the whole world, and nothing but your wisdom and courage can get us out of this danger.
Who acts: You, kings, nothing · What happens: be, cry, get · To what, where: king, wisest man, whole world, us, danger · 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, kings, nothing), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 king | nmod:poss |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 more | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 cried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 man | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 get | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 get | cc |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 get | nsubj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 wisdom | cc |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nothing | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 courage | cc |
| 33 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nothing | conj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 get | iobj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 danger | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 danger | case |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 danger | det |
| 40 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | our king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | kings = king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | the wisest man | the whole world | tree rules | |||
| 5 | get in a quote | can | nothing | us | this danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=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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