Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 77

"What mean you, little bird?" cried Ulysses. "

Who acts: Ulysses · What happens: mean, cry · To what, where: little bird · 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 (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	_	3 mean	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 mean	obj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bird	discourse
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 mean	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present		little bird					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Ulysses						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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