Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 88
In short, I have said enough to make you guess that it was Quicksilver; and Ulysses (who knew him of old, and had learned a great deal of his wisdom from him) recognized him in a moment.
Who acts: I, you, staff, Ulysses · What happens: say, make, guess, be, know, learn · To what, where: you, Quicksilver, serpent, great deal, Ulysses, wisdom · 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, you, staff, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knew | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 short | conj |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 Quicksilver | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 Quicksilver | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Quicksilver | cop |
| 15 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guess | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 18 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 old | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knew | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 learned | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 learned | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 learned | aux |
| 28 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 knew | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 deal | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 deal | amod |
| 31 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 learned | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 wisdom | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deal | nmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wisdom | nmod |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 learned | punct |
| 38 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 learned | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 recognized | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 moment | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 moment | det |
| 42 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 recognized | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | I | enough property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | guess | infinitive | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | staff | Quicksilver | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Ulysses | serpent | of old | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | learn | past · perfect | a great deal of Ulysses's wisdom from Ulysses | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Topic | |||||
| 7 | recognize | past | Ulysses | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | deal | Ulysses's wisdom from Ulysses | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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