Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 79
Is it because I too am a king, that you desire so earnestly to speak with me?
Who acts: bird, you · What happens: be, desire, speak · To what, where: king · 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 (bird, you), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 king | nsubj |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 am | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 am | nsubj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 am | advmod |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desire | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 desire | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 desire | nsubj |
| 12 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 earnestly | advmod |
| 14 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 desire | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desire | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 speak | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bird | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | you | earnestly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | with me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/79/