Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 89
"Whither are you going in such a hurry, wise Ulysses?" asked Quicksilver. "
Who acts: you, Quicksilver · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: hurry · 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, Quicksilver), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hurry | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 hurry | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hurry | det |
| 9 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ulysses | punct |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Ulysses | amod |
| 12 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hurry | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quicksilver | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quicksilver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | such hurry | whither property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Quicksilver | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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